What if I want to film actors dressed as Metropolitan Police using an actual police station as the set?
Unfortunately the Metropolitan Police cannot hire out police stations for the filming industry. If you are filming actors dressed as Metropolitan Police officers in a mocked-up police station, you will require an intellectual property license agreement, contact intellectualproperty@met.police.uk. In my production drama the scriptwriters have as characters, two Metropolitan Police officers taking drugs, racially abusing other characters and perpetrating crimes? Can we have an IP license for this depiction? Probably not. It would be considered, however, if the ethos of the organisation was unaffected. This would be on the basis that the production depicted correctly the practice of the organisation by showing that the actions of the officers were regarded as criminal and that the behaviour was neither tolerated nor condoned. The intellectual property license gives conditional right to the use of the identifying images of the Metropolitan Police provided that the association will in no wa
