The crowned heads of Europe were invited to a fortnight-long celebration starting with a royal thanksgiving ceremony at St Paul’s on 21 June. It would be a display of Imperial glory unprecedented in the fifty years since the coronation. James Monro knew that if he could only bypass the Commissioner, he could bend Home Secretary Matthews to his will; and he managed it. He got Robert Anderson back into the Home Office and whisked day-to-day intelligence of international political crime out of Sir Charles Warren’s hands altogether. The Criminal Investigation Department was reorganised. ‘Ordinary’ serious crime would be dealt with by Section A. Superintendent Williamson would head Section B, a department about twenty-five strong dealing with Irish affairs in London as the old SIB had done. Section C would be the Port Police. All section heads would report to Warren. Section D, an entirely new, very small and secret section called the Special Branch, would be financed separately from the Metropolitan Police; its money would come from the Treasury via the Home Office.
