For those unaware the "City of London" is in fact a small part of London, what you might call downtown, and they have their own police force. fwiw they're regarded as a very competent police force
It’s not a conspiracy; the City of London police, alongside normal local duties, have a national responsibility for many kinds of economic and cyber crime.
This almost certainly comes from long experience investigating fraud and other financial crimes amongst the businesses and people based there, to a degree and level of complexity not found in other regions of the UK.
For instance they host Action Fraud for the entire country.
If you want to talk about enforcement priorities, contact your PCC, or better yet, right now, your local candidates.
This article and others say the Corporation pretty much does as it pleases. There's a "conspiracy theory" that says that the City instigated Brexit to avoid EU jurisdiction.
The Corporation is some kind of acquisitive out-of-democratic-control alien dropped into the middle of London finance. OTOH the City is just another rich men's club I guess. Nice that its democracy for company-entities.
The City of London is very small, safe (quick look online returns that the crime rate is "73% lower than London and 67% lower than national average"), and very rich, and obviously right in the middle of a top world city. So I am guessing that their police force is well resourced, able to attract "top talent", and not bogged down by anti-social and petty crime.
Yes it is, a friend had their laptop stolen, the police tracked down the offenders within 2 hours and returned the items. What they also don’t tell you is that it’s a dystopian panopticon and runs on a slightly different legal system than the rest of the U.K.
The City Police have a very, small patch and little violent crime, but are geared up to deal with IRA/ISIS-type threats.
Part of this means they have surveillance coverage of virtually the entire areas. It also mean that they can get anywhere very, very quickly.
Well it’s a reputation, so it’s hard to quantify. But anecdotally I’ve heard from numerous people who had dealings with that they were very competent (compared to most British forces presumably).
I’ve also heard that their average level of policeman is more educated , ie many holding degrees, masters etc. I presume this must be due to the nature of the work they’re most known for ie combatting complex fraud, organised crime etc
Erm, yep? You compared #officers/#residents for City & Met police; I'm saying that's irrelevant. City has much lower #residents/#crime, or / money changing hands, or / footfall on an average business day, etc.
