Around 2,300 police officers will line the route of the Queen’s final journey from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle.
One thousand officers, alongside military personnel, will line the route from Westminster Abbey to Wellington Arch, as the Queen’s coffin is transported from the funeral service by gun carriage. More than 3,000 officers from forces outside London will form part of the 10,000-strong team policing the funeral on Monday.
Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy described this as the “final and most complex phase” of the operation after the death of the monarch. Speaking inside the specialist operations room of the capital’s police force on Sunday, Mr Cundy said: “This is a policing operation the Met has been planning for a considerable amount of time but on Monday we will enter our final and most complex phase of our policing operation.
