Talk:Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

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How do the ranks below commissioner compare to those in other forces? Are all those mentioned above chief superintendant?
 * Commisioner and Deputy Commisioner have no equivalents in other forces, as for the others:
 * Assistant Commissioner = Chief Constable in other forces
 * Deputy Assistant Commissioner = Deputy Chief Constable
 * Commander = Assistant Chief Constable
 * Ranks up to and including Chief Superintendent are identical. See Metropolitan Police Service. -- Necrothesp 15:46, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know who appoints the Commissioner? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.198.155.151 (talk) 20:37, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Salary
"The Commissioner's annual salary without pension contributions or allowances from 1 September 2010, is £260,088, more than one-hundred and fifty thousand pounds (£150,000) higher than the lowest paid Chief Police officers outside London (namely: the Chief Constables of the Scottish Police forces')"

The link given does not support this at all. To start with the maximum differential (with the lowest paid CCs on 127,000) is £133,000. What's more these are not "the Chief Constables of the Scottish Police forces": For example the CC of Strathclyde is paid 178,431. If it needs saying at all then "the most rural police forces" (which happen to be some of the Scottish forces) might be more accurate. Bagunceiro (talk) 14:06, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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Military ranks
There does not seem to be a clearly obvious rationale for including William Hay's rank as an Army captain while excluding Robert Mark's more senior rank of major. The effect of the current arrangement tends to mislead the reader into thinking that the last commissioner with experience in the Armed Forces was Philip Game, which is not the case. I would suggest either taking an inclusive view or simply folding the entire column into the Notes column. Greenshed (talk) 21:20, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Hay was known as Captain Hay throughout his service. Like most early commissioners he was appointed directly to senior police rank from the armed forces and had never served in the lower ranks of the police. Mark, on the other hand, was never known as Major Mark while a policeman, since he was a career police officer who had worked his way up from constable and only served in the forces during the war (after serving as a major in the war he actually returned to the police as a constable!). Military ranks are only appropriate if they were commonly used. Game was the last commissioner to be directly appointed because he was a senior military officer and who continued to use his rank while serving in the Met. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:47, 26 November 2020 (UTC)