Metropolitan Police area under the elected mayor: crime since 2012
The government plans to abolish Police and Crime Commissioners in May 2028. Where an area has an elected mayor, the mayor will run policing; elsewhere, new police and crime boards made up of council leaders will. The law to do this has not been passed yet. Source
Holders since 2012
Sadiq Khan · Labour
since May 2016
Day-to-day running of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is delegated to a Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime.
Metropolitan Police +18% · England and Wales +25%
85.6 per 1,000 (Apr 2015 – Mar 2016) → 100.6 per 1,000 (Jul 2025 – Jun 2026)
Recorded crime per 1,000 people, the year before taking office vs the latest year in office
Boris Johnson · Conservative
January 2012 – May 2016, until the election
Since January 2012 the elected mayor holds the PCC's powers.
Mayor since May 2008; took on the PCC's powers when the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime was created on 16 January 2012.
Metropolitan Police −12% · England and Wales −5%
96.9 per 1,000 (Jan 2011 – Dec 2011) → 85.6 per 1,000 (Apr 2015 – Mar 2016)
Recorded crime per 1,000 people, the year before taking office vs the latest year in office
Council areas in Metropolitan Police
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales
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