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There's probably some law on the books that says the City has their own police force and rewriting it opens up a whole can of worms nobody wants to deal with.

• skissane 6y ago
  > There's probably some law on the books that says the City has their own police force City of London Police Act 1839 > and rewriting it opens up a whole can of worms nobody wants to deal with. The issue is political. Business interests want to retain the City of London as independent from Greater London because while the rest of London is a one-person-one-vote democracy, the City of London is not. Most of the votes in the City of London are controlled by businesses not residents. The City of London having its own police force is a sign of its independence. Merging City of London Police into the Metropolitan Police Service would be seen as a potential steppingstone to making the City of London part of Greater London, and hence introducing to it genuine democracy