Also known as a Major Investigation Team and abbreviated to MIT.

Murder Investigation Teams are the specialised homicide squads of London's Metropolitan Police Service. MITs investigate cases of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder where the evidence of intent is unambiguous, or where a risk assesment identifies substantative risk to life. St. ... Metropolitan Police redirects here. ...

MITs were established in 2000 to replace the former Area Major Incident Pools (AMIPs) as part of Scotland Yard's Serious Crime Group. New Scotland Yard, London New Scotland Yard, often referred to simply as Scotland Yard or The Yard, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for policing Greater London (although not the City of London itself). ...

In 2001, there were 31 murder investigation teams operating in London, made up of 834 police officers,182 civillian staff, and 14 senior detectives. St. ...

Currently, murder investigation in London is undertaken by the Specialist Crime Directorate's Homicide Command, which is split geographically into three units (West, East and South), each led by a Detective Chief Superintendent. Each of the Command Units has nine Major Investigation Teams (MITs), consisting of 33 staff, led by a Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), who performs the role of senior investigating officer (SIO). St. ... The Specialist Crime Directorate is an elite unit within the London Metropolitan Police Service. ...

Television program

On 3 May 2003, Britain's ITV1 television network debuted a new police drama series called MIT: Murder Investigation Team, portraying the cases investigated by a London murder squad. The program itself was a spin-off to ITV's long-running police drama The Bill, and the first episode featured the team investigating the drive-by shooting of one of The Bill's popular characters, Sgt. Matt Boyden. There were 10 one-hour episodes in the first series. ITV1 is a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... The current cast of The Bill The Bill is a long-running British police drama shown on ITV1. ... A drive-by shooting (sometimes referred to merely as a drive-by) is an attack on a person carried out with a firearm discharge from a moving vehicle (or a momentarily stopped vehicle). ... The current cast of The Bill The Bill is a long-running British police drama shown on ITV1. ...

A second series consisting of four 90-minute episodes was commissioned and filmed, and although the series was shown in Australia in February 2005, its UK broadcast was delayed until July 2005.

The MIT abbreviation was removed from the international (non-UK) broadcasts to avoid confusion with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first series was filmed with the working title Think Murder. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research institution and university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts along the Charles River and across from Bostons Back Bay district. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a research and educational institution located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is a world leader in science and technology, as well as in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... This article is about the term working title. ...