Commenting on the statement by Theresa May, the new Home Secretary, that she intends to push through plans for directly elected police commissioners, Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly policing spokesperson and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority said: For ten years the Metropolitan Police Service has been accountable to Londoners through a police

This site has been developed by the Metropolitan Police Service in association with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London. It provides the public and researchers with free access to crime mappings of London. Users can enter a postcode to retrieve maps of levels of crime in their neighbourhood. These enable comparison of trends in burglary, robbery and vehicle crime in the area ...

Metropolitan police authority to set up new civil liberties panel as part of eight-point plan to restore confidence in London force Boris Johnson today signed up to a review of the Metropolitan police's approach to handling demonstrations amid public outcry over policing at the G20 protests in London earlier this month. The Metropolitan police authority, which the capital's mayor chairs,...

According to the latest figures published by the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), there are now 1,130 fewer full time warranted police officers working in London borough commands than there were last year. On March 31st 2010 there were 20,599 police officers working in the 32 London boroughs. According to the latest Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) figures, by July 2011 there were just 19,4...

Steria has won a new contract with London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) to transform the MPS’s Human Resources (HR) function.

The Metropolitan police commissioner of the 1980s, Sir Robert Mark, once said that the test of an efficient police force is whether it can catch more criminals than it employs. Corrupt police officers who move through the ranks to the most senior level are nothing new, they have been in place since Robert Peel created London's Metropolitan Police Force in 1829. The upper echelons of the Met h...

Sir Ian Blair resigned this afternoon as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, with effect from 1st December. Dee Doocey, Liberal Democrat London Assembly spokesperson on policing (and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority) said: The Metropolitan Police Service is crying out for strong leadership, and whoever takes over has a mountain to climb. The lack of leadership at

The Metropolitan Police has ceased to operate as a force and is more of a service provider, according to retired senior police officer and crisis management specialist Peter Power.

David Hanson MP, Labour's Shadow Policing Minister, in response to the Metropolitan Police Authority being replaced by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPC) from today, said:

Today Boris Johnson has claimed that he has protected "police officers from cuts". This is completely untrue and at odds with the Metropolitan Police's own figures. The latest figures from the police have confirmed that Boris Johnson has cut 1,782 police officers in the last 18 months. * In March 2010 there were from 33,260 police officers in London; * By October 2011 there were just 31,478 p...