Metropolitan Police's proud boast sets off police alarm in Glasgow / Times, 4 July 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4265475.ece
"The Metropolitan Police has been ordered to withdraw its claim to be “the oldest police service in the world” after the advertising watchdog ruled that the Glasgow force had been around longer. A complaint was made to the Advertising Standards Authority after the Met advertised for royal protection police in newspapers last month, stating: “We’re not just the oldest police service in the world. We’re also the most modern.” The complaint, which is believed to come from a long-serving Glasgow officer, said that the City of Glasgow Police were set up in 1800 - 29 years before the Metropolitan Police force was formed under Sir Robert Peel. "