The City of London is very small, safe (quick look online returns that the crime rate is "73% lower than London and 67% lower than national average"), and very rich, and obviously right in the middle of a top world city. So I am guessing that their police force is well resourced, able to attract "top talent", and not bogged down by anti-social and petty crime.

It's also mostly an office district. Not many people live there. It's mostly a ghost town at night and weekends.

I'm always suspicious of low crime rates - often it means people don't bother reporting crimes as they know nothing will happen.

IE, if I get robbed in the City of London is it even worth calling the police?

Yes it is, a friend had their laptop stolen, the police tracked down the offenders within 2 hours and returned the items. What they also don’t tell you is that it’s a dystopian panopticon and runs on a slightly different legal system than the rest of the U.K.

Impressive! TBH I'd rather that dystopia than the one where people are constantly having their things stolen with zero recourse.

Why would there be a difference in reporting in the City vs the rest of London?

The City Police have a very, small patch and little violent crime, but are geared up to deal with IRA/ISIS-type threats. Part of this means they have surveillance coverage of virtually the entire areas. It also mean that they can get anywhere very, very quickly.

Well it’s a reputation, so it’s hard to quantify. But anecdotally I’ve heard from numerous people who had dealings with that they were very competent (compared to most British forces presumably).

I’ve also heard that their average level of policeman is more educated , ie many holding degrees, masters etc. I presume this must be due to the nature of the work they’re most known for ie combatting complex fraud, organised crime etc

They have about 1 officer per 10 people living there which helps quite a bit

For reference, the Met has 33k officers for 10m people

There is one very important caveat about the population of the City though.

Whilst there are only 8,600 residents, there are apparently over 600,000 commuters working there every day.

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-city-of-l...

Because policing is all about who's resident in the territory covered?

Good point, bad tone :)

Is that what I said? Nope

Erm, yep? You compared #officers/#residents for City & Met police; I'm saying that's irrelevant. City has much lower #residents/#crime, or / money changing hands, or / footfall on an average business day, etc.

Their focus is more on complex financial crimes, so they're a bit better educated than your typical cop.

They have different branding from the rest of the police forces!