Laurence Taylor is a senior British police officer. On 3 June 2025 his promotion from Temporary Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, with the portfolio of Professionalism, to substantive Assistant Commissioner, heading Specialist Operations, was announced; it took effect in July 2025. [1]
Taylor served in Sussex Police from 1996 to July 2018, [2] before moving to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as a Deputy Assistant Commissioner. [3] [4] His initial role in the MPS was heading the Operations portfolio within Met Operations, then from April 2021, that of Local Policing within Frontline Policing. [5]