Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919, although he did not formally retire from the army until 1921. He worked for the Directorate of Intelligence, where he was Assistant Director under Basil Thomson. He was then appointed Deputy Assistant Commissioner on 24 October 1922. In 1933 he took command of No.2 District (North-West London), based at Paddington.