The police, as F. Engels noted, are as old as the state. The history of the internal affairs bodies of Moscow should begin with the founding of the city itself - the middle of the XII century. Then the functions of the police were performed by the princely squad. In 2022, the Metropolitan Police celebrated its 300th anniversary. For almost the entire period of its activity, it is an undoubted "pioneer" of initiating and applying in practice new organizational forms of protecting public order and security, preventing offenses, and methods of combating crime.