Mind How You Go

Would a Briton be considered for Chief of Police in Boston, New York or Los Angeles, even if he had been a highly successful Commissioner of the Met? Well, there you are, then.

David Cameron's merciful failure to hand over the policing of by far our largest city, together with nationwide responsibility for counter-terrorism and for the security of the Royal Family, to this "Supercop" should serve as a spur to us finally to get over imported cop shows.

Then we would no longer have the ridiculous spectacle of cars careering through our quiet countryside adorned with imitations of the giant badge of the NY or LAPD. Nor would we have to endure guff either about elected sheriffs or about "a British FBI".