Metropolitan Police YouTube Stats

@metpolice_uk · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

Metropolitan Police channel overview

Metropolitan Police (@metpolice_uk) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2009. It has 109K subscribers and 46M total views across 404 videos, an average of 115K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 54K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 94K views. Over the last 12 months, Metropolitan Police published 66 videos (65% Shorts), and 8 of them (12%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 16 days, Metropolitan Police gained 1K subscribers and 1.3M views, about 83K views a day.

How much does Metropolitan Police make?

Returbe estimates Metropolitan Police's YouTube ad revenue at $5.7K – $17K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.6 to $4.81, typically $2.67, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $2.7K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

Metropolitan Police publishes about 25 videos a month. Based on its last 66 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (27% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

Metropolitan Police's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are Metropolitan Police's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Motorbike Cop v E-bike Knifeman | ON SCENE UK Police Bodycam740K views · Sep 15, 20267.9× typical views
• Phone thief caught in 30 seconds!267K views · Sep 18, 20267.5× typical views
• Russell Brand Brought To Justice204K views · Nov 5, 20265.8× typical views
• Ha ha bye bye snatchers169K views · Sep 1, 20264.8× typical views
• 💎 💷 £225,000 Jewellery Smash and Grab Gang thought they'd got away...155K views · Jul 13, 20264.4× typical views
• ❌ ⌚️ Time's Up for £140,000 Richard Mille Watch Thieves140K views · Oct 20, 20264× typical views
• 🏍️ Officer Tackles Thief Off Motorbike128K views · Nov 4, 20263.6× typical views
• £4 million in cash - SEIZURED!107K views · Aug 3, 20263× typical views

Latest videos

5 of Metropolitan Police's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Sir Mark Rowley: The cost of standing still is that criminals will win248 views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Tackling stolen goods and tools across London1.2K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Child predator sentenced to 25 years4.3K views · Nov 6, 20260× typical views
• Russell Brand Brought To Justice204K views · Nov 5, 20265.8× typical views
• 🥶 That time we found a wanted suspect hiding in a fridge8.2K views · Nov 5, 20260.2× typical views
• 🚔 On The Beat | Cracking Down on Retail Crime and Stolen Goods92K views · Nov 4, 20261× typical views
• 🏍️ Officer Tackles Thief Off Motorbike128K views · Nov 4, 20263.6× typical views
• HE THOUGHT HE'D GOT AWAY! | Stolen Porsche Pursuit & Foot Chase | ON SCENE UK Police Bodycam106K views · Nov 2, 20261.1× typical views
• On Response with Volunteer Police Officers6.2K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• What Really Happens at a Crime Scene | Forensics Science Behind the Police Tape5.7K views · Oct 30, 20260.1× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 501 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.4×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 64.2×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with Metropolitan Police or YouTube.