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In 2005 the Branch had 345 members, and funding for another 500 was being sought. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Sir Ian Blair , announced that Specialist Operations units were to be re-aligned. The plans included forming 3 new departments within Specialist Operations to carry out specific functions:

# Protecting People, (Splitting the functions of both SO14 & SO16 and merging them with parts of SO17 , SO18 and SO12 )
# Protecting Places, (Splitting the functions of both SO14 & SO16 and merging them with parts of SO17 and SO18 )
# Counter Terrorism Command (Merging SO12 & SO13 together)


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