In 1829, the Metropolitan police was formed and London had a population of 1.8 million. Now it has a population of about 9.5 million. Is the Met police either too big to fail or too big to succeed, or has London become just too geographically large to police on the model that it has today?
Metropolitan Police Service
Proceeding contribution from
Simon Hoare
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 29 June 2022.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Metropolitan Police Service.
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