The City of London Police Authority Board met on Wednesday 8 October 2025 to discuss a range of issues, including performance updates, HMICFRS ¹ PEEL ² inspection findings, and a summary of quarterly sub-committee reports. The board was also scheduled to discuss the City of London Police's policing plan and consider excluding the public from certain items on the agenda.

HMICFRS PEEL Inspection Report

The board was scheduled to discuss the findings of the HMICFRS PEEL inspection report on the City of London Police. The report, which was published on 24 July 2025, graded the City of London Police as 'Outstanding' in terms of how and when it records crime, and 'Good' for investigating crime.

Councillor Tijs Broeke, Chair of the Police Authority Board, noted in his chair's update that the board had already discussed HMICFRS's findings at an informal meeting on 17 September 2025.

The report identified 12 areas for improvement, which are to be overseen through the force's Operational Improvement Board. These included:

• Improving the recording of equality data.
• Improving the recording of information and reviews of data to better understand its use of stop and search.
• Improving its understanding of why officers use force in some circumstances.
• Improving its problem-solving processes, including evaluation and a consistent way of storing plans.
• Ensuring officers and staff have the required awareness of schemes and orders to protect victims, and the confidence to use them.
• Improving its understanding of the service experienced by vulnerable victims.
• Making sure it adheres to Violent and Sex Offender Register standards, and that all information for the management of registered sex offenders is recorded on this system.
• Developing its data and information to better understand challenges that affect workforce well-being and occupational health provision.
• Considering its personal development review process to make sure it is effective and valued by officers and staff.
• Improving the interoperability of teams and units, often working in silos, to improve performance and create a greater one-team culture.
• Improving productivity through digital, data and tech solutions.
• Improving processes to regularly review its strategic decisions, policies and processes to check they are effective.

Policing Plan Performance Update

The board was scheduled to receive a report from the Commissioner of Police providing an update on the performance against the City of London Policing Plan 2025-28 for the first quarter of the year.

The report included data on a number of key performance indicators, including:

• All crime
• Keeping people in the City safe and feeling safe
• Reducing theft
• Responding effectively to theft
• Reducing violence
• Responding effectively to violence
• Protecting the City from terrorism
• Putting victims at the heart of everything we do
• Improving the national policing response to fraud, economic and cyber crime
• Being one of the most inclusive and trusted police services in the country
• Being an employer of choice
• Improving productivity

The report noted that overall crime had increased by 7% compared to the previous quarter, but that it remained below the average of the past three years. It also noted that theft from person offences had decreased by 29% compared to the last quarter, and that violence against the person offences had reduced by just under 7%.

The report also provided an update on a number of initiatives, including Operation Swipe, which is aimed at reducing phone snatching, and the Community Engagement Strategic Plan, which is a joint initiative between the City of London Police and the City of London Corporation.

Quarterly Sub-Committees Summary Report

The board was scheduled to consider a report from the Town Clerk summarising the public reports that had gone to the board's sub-committees during the previous quarter. The sub-committees covered in the report were:

• Local Policing Committee
• Resource and Estates Committee
• Economic Security and Cyber Crime Committee

The report excluded summaries of Policing Plan performance papers to sub-committees, as these were summarised in a standalone paper. It also excluded Professionalism and Trust Committee paper summaries, as that committee had not yet met this quarter.

Some of the key issues discussed at the sub-committees included:

• Community engagement and strategic plan
• Cycling behaviour in the City of London
• Operation Tinsel review
• City of London Police Vulnerability overview
• 2025/26 Q1 Revenue and Capital budget monitoring
• CFO and COO update
• Internal Audit update
• Q1 Workforce Monitoring report
• City of London Police Productivity Action Plan
• Q1 – National Lead Force City of London Police performance report
• Summary of Action Fraud public complaints data
• Innovation & Growth – Update of Cyber and Economic-crime-related activities

Commissioner's Update

The board was scheduled to receive an update from the Commissioner of Police, Peter O'Doherty. The update included information on local operations and security, as well as national economic and cyber crime.

Some of the highlights from the update included:

• The City of London Police receiving an Outstanding grading from HMICFRS for how it records crime.
• City of London Police officers riding in the 2025 Police Unity Tour in memory of fallen City of London Police officer Ian Kellaway.
• City of London Police cadets taking gold in the second Cadet Summer Games.
• The City of London Police continuing to pursue and disrupt Organised Crime Groups committing phone snatching offences.
• A prolific bag thief being sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
• Six men being sentenced to nearly 25 years in total for dealing cocaine in the city.

Chair's Public Update

Councillor Tijs Broeke, Chair of the Police Authority Board, was scheduled to provide an update on a number of issues, including:

• The HMICFRS PEEL inspection report on the City of London Police
• The PAB informal meeting held on 17 September 2025
• External engagement
• Safer Town Centres
• 16 Days of Activism on Violence against Women and Girls
• National Black Police Association (NBPA) annual conference

Exclusion of the Public

The board was scheduled to consider a motion to exclude the public from the meeting for the following items:

• Non-Public Minutes
• Chair's Non-Public Update
• Commissioner's Non-Public Update
• Secure City Programme (SCP) Issues Report Sep25
• Quarterly Sub-Committees Summary Report - Non-Public
• City of London Police Risk Register Update
• Police Medium-Term Financial Plan - Strategic Considerations
• Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting and Analysis Service - Regular Programme Progress Note.
• Future Police Estates Portfolio: Securing Police Accommodation to 2030
• Non-Public Questions on Matters Relating to the Work of the Board
• Any Other Business That The Chair Considers Urgent And Which The Board Agrees Should Be Considered Whilst The Public Are Excluded

The motion stated that the items involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972.