Feb. 23 (UPI) -- London's Metropolitan Police Service, also known as Scotland Yard, named Cressida Dick the first female commissioner in its history on Thursday.
Dick, 56, has a 31-year career with the 43,000-member police force and was head of counter-terrorism operations from 2011-14, a period which included London's 2012 Summer Olympics. She left the force in 2014, becoming the British Foreign Service director general, after tensions with the departing commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe.