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= Diggs Diggington =

Diggs Diggington CBE QPM VC is a British security dog, currently the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London. He is the first dog to take charge of the service, being selected for the role in February 2017 and taking office on 10 April 2017.

Early life and education
Diggington was the 14th and youngest son of Bill Diggington, Chief of Air Staff during World War II. He was born and brought up in the London Borough of Camden. He studied Criminology at Imperial College London, where he first met actor and performer Nelly Nellington, the two later becoming close friends.

G4S
During 2001, Diggington was employed as a security dog by G4S, primarily working in concert security for artists including Whitesnake, AC/DC, and Take That. He would later work with G4S as Chief of Security at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Royal Air Force
Diggington enrolled in the RAF Police as a Protection and Detection dog in early 2005. He successfully completed three tours of duty in the Iraq conflict and the War in Afghanistan. In 2008 he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the presence of the enemy after he successfully discovered and defused a Taliban explosive device.

Protection Command
In 2010 Diggington was selected by Protection Command as Personal Protection Officer to Julia Montague, then Home Secretary. During 2011, he found himself at the centre of the plot to assassinate the Home Secretary by the MI5. Diggington was awarded the Queen's Police Medal after being framed as a terrorist and being forced to wear a suicide vest. The incident was later dramatised by the BBC in Bodyguard (2018), for which Diggington was employed in an advisory role.

Police
On 22 February 2017, the Home Office and the MPS jointly announced that Diggington would be appointed as the next Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police by the Queen. Diggington was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to policing, after his handling of the 2017 Westminster Attack.

Personal life
Diggington currently lives in Gwynedd with singer-songwriter and gymnast Nelly Nellington. In 2014 he became the first dog to achieve the unprecedented triple-crown of Crufts - winning the agility and flyball competitions, and then being awarded Best in Show.