Agenda item

In accordance with Standing Order No. 63, your City of London Police Authority Board submit a candidate for appointment to the Office of Commissioner of Police for the City of London to be appointed on a date to be confirmed subject to receipt of approval of Her Majesty The Queen (to be sought in accordance with Section III of the City of London Police Act 1839) and subsequently to the candidate taking an Oath before one of Her Majesty’s Judges.

Details of the candidate are set out in the confidential report at Item 23.

MOTION - To exclude the public.

The candidate will appear before the Court of Common Council and will be asked to provide a short presentation to Members. Upon the candidate’s withdrawal from the Court, a ballot by Members will be held for the appointment. On completion of that, the public will be re-admitted and the decision of the Court can be made known. A non-public report has been printed and circulated for consideration by Members only (see: Item 23) and its contents include exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act, 1972.

CITY OF LONDON POLICE AUTHORITY BOARD

(Deputy James Michael Douglas Thomson)

30 June 2021

Appointment of Commissioner of Police for the City of London

In accordance with Standing Order No. 63, the City of London Police Authority Board submitted a candidate for appointment to the Office of Commissioner of Police for the City of London. Details of the candidate and the interview and assessment process were set out in an accompanying confidential report at Item 23.

It was advised that the candidate would appear before the Court of Common Council (in private session) and give a presentation. Upon the candidate’s withdrawal from the Court, a ballot would be held for the appointment and, on completion of that, the public would be re-admitted and the decision of the Court made known.

Resolved – that the public be excluded from the meeting for the interview of the candidate for Commissioner, together with the consideration of other non-public items of business, on the grounds that they involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraphs 1 and 3 of Part 1 of the Local Government Act, 1972.

Summary of the exempt item considered whilst the public were excluded

The candidate for the post of Commissioner, having been called in, addressed the Court on a given subject and then withdrew.

The Court proceeded to ballot on the appointment.

Whilst the ballot count was conducted and the public excluded, the Court proceeded to consider Items 22 to 27.

The ballot for the Commissioner having been taken up and cast, the Lord Mayor declared Angela McLaren to have been appointed.

Whereupon the Court resolved that strangers be re-admitted.

The Town Clerk reported that the Court of Common Council had, in accordance with Standing Order No. 63(1), appointed Angela McLaren to be Commissioner.

Whereupon The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor declared Ms McLaren to be duly appointed to the Office of Commissioner of Police for the City of London subject to receipt of approval of Her Majesty The Queen (to be sought in accordance with Section III of the City of London Police Act 1839) and to the taking of an Oath before one of Her Majesty’s Judges, on the usual terms and conditions relating to the appointment of Chief Officers and subject to such other regulations as this Court had adopted or may hereafter adopt in respect of the said appointment, and to all other orders and regulations of this Court with reference to its Officers.

Angela McLaren accepted the appointment, thanked the Court and withdrew.

Resolved – That Angela McLaren be appointed to the Office of Commissioner of Police for the City of London on a date to be confirmed subject to receipt of the approval of Her Majesty The Queen (to be sought in accordance with Section III of the City of London Police Act 1839) and subsequently to the candidate taking an Oath before one of her Majesty’s Judges.