Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner.

The Board received a report of the City of London Police Commissioner on the Draft City of London Police Annual Report 2021-22. The City of London Police Commissioner introduced the report and highlighted the key points to the Board.

The Chair noted that the Annual Report was a fitting opportunity to celebrate successes and requested this be built into the report. In addition, the Chair highlighted that the diversity of recruits was not yet at the levels hoped for and requested that this continue to be reported transparently even if targets were not attained. Moreover, it was requested that the fraud and cybercrime figures be added to the list of other crimes recorded.

Responding to a Member’s query it was confirmed that the plan for communicating the City of London Police Annual Report 2021-22 would be included in the final version of the report which would be coming to the Board for approval in June. 

It was agreed that the Strategic Planning and Performance Committee would discuss further the increase in crime figures to get further information on why these figures were increasing and what was being done to combat this rise.

RESOLVED- That it be noted that a final version of this report will be submitted to the Police Authority Board on 30th June 2022 for approval before its onward submission to the Court of Common Council in July.