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It depends a lot I think. London's an interesting case, because depending on what part of London you're in you're dealing with a totally different police force

It depends a lot I think. London's an interesting case, because depending on what part of London you're in you're dealing with a totally different police force - in the City of London, there's the City of London police but this only covers the square mile. Most of London is policed by the Metropolitan Police. Administratively, the City of London and everything else in London it's totally separate. The City has The Lord Mayor of London, the rest has Sadiq Khan. Most of London has boroughs and councilors. The City has a bizarre system where so-called Aldermen are elected by guilds from businesses local to the area, along with an amount of councillors representing the local population. Councils do have the ability to set policy for how certain laws are enforced and have some powers to create bye-laws although I'm struggling to remember the specific pieces of legislation which are relevant to this at the moment.

dullgiulio 8y ago
The City of London is the exception, not the norm. The history of how it came to this situation is also pretty interesting (the City is what should be called London, not the rest of the city.) It's a less extreme version of what happens in Rome with the Vatican, which is a completely different country. But in either case, it's just one inclave. The article talks about jigsaws happening in almost every city.
- cobbzilla 8y ago
  Indeed. CGPgrey did a nice video about these peculiarities of London: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
Normal_gaussian 8y ago
The city of London is such a small and specific case; and it really isn't relevant to the jurisdictions of the outer boundaries (:. shapes) of British cities.
wlll 8y ago
Interesting article/video on the City of London http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html

dullgiulio 8y ago

The City of London is the exception, not the norm. The history of how it came to this situation is also pretty interesting (the City is what should be called London, not the rest of the city.) It's a less extreme version of what happens in Rome with the Vatican, which is a completely different country. But in either case, it's just one inclave. The article talks about jigsaws happening in almost every city.

cobbzilla 8y ago
Indeed. CGPgrey did a nice video about these peculiarities of London: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

Normal_gaussian 8y ago

The city of London is such a small and specific case; and it really isn't relevant to the jurisdictions of the outer boundaries (:. shapes) of British cities.

wlll 8y ago

Interesting article/video on the City of London http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-secret-city-of-london.html