Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre

The Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre is a specialist training centre for the Metropolitan Police (MPS) in Gravesend, Kent.

[1] It features mock roads, shops, a pub, a bank, a nightclub, a football stadium, train and underground stations with full-size carriages and a full-size section of an aircraft.

[1] There are also classrooms and lecture theatres, accommodation for more than 300 people, stables for 10 police horses and an abseil tower.

[2][3][4] It took several months of negotiations with authorities for Rawlings to get permission to photograph the site and restrictions included not showing the faces of officers who took part in training.

[4] The site has also appeared on Television in the former police procedural drama "The Bill".

The Specialist Training Centre as viewed from the bank of the River Thames in June 2011
Train carriage forming part of the Specialist Training Centre in July 2011