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The City of London Police are often involved in nationwide fraud issues, consulting with other regional police forces, etc. They're a leading UK center for it
by carmen_sandiego 6y ago
The City of London Police are often involved in nationwide fraud issues, consulting with other regional police forces, etc. They're a leading UK center for it just because they deal with it so often.
This is all a bit "you wouldn't download a car" of course, but it's not that unusual for them to comment on these things.
- vijayr02 6y agoAlso, the City of London is (I think) the only municipal body where businesses are allowed to vote alongside residents AND outnumber residents. From the Wikipedia article: > As it has not been affected by other municipal legislation over the period of time since then, its electoral practice has become increasingly anomalous. Therefore, the non-residential vote (or business vote), abolished in the rest of the country in 1969, became an increasingly large part of the electorate. The non-residential vote system used disfavoured incorporated companies. The City of London (Ward Elections) Act 2002 greatly increased the business franchise, allowing many more businesses to be represented. In 2009, the business vote was about 24,000, greatly exceeding residential voters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation
- corty 6y agoAlso, the sherrifs are elected by the Common Hall. The Common Hall consists of the senior members of the Livery Companies which are the guilds and trade associations. So the police is exclusively elected by the businesses.