The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) is the police authority

Police authority

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 responsible for supervising the Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...

, the police force for Greater London

Greater London

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 (excluding the City of London Police

City of London Police

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 area).

It consists of 23 members: 12 London Assembly

London Assembly

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 members, appointed by the Mayor of London

Mayor of London

The Mayor of London is an elected politician who, along with the London Assembly of 25 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Greater London. Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008...

 in accordance with the political balance on the Assembly, four magistrate

Magistrate

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s and seven independents. The MPA was set up in 2000 as a functional body of the Greater London Authority

Greater London Authority

The Greater London Authority is the top-tier administrative body for Greater London, England. It consists of a directly elected executive Mayor of London, currently Boris Johnson, and an elected 25-member London Assembly with scrutiny powers...

, by the Greater London Authority Act 1999

Greater London Authority Act 1999

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. Previously control of the Metropolitan Police had vested entirely in the Home Secretary

Home Secretary

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.

Members

• Kit Malthouse
  Kit Malthouse
  Kit Malthouse is Deputy Mayor of London with responsibility for the Metropolitan Police. A politician, businessman and occasional writer, he is a Conservative and a member of the London Assembly representing the West Central constituency, which encompasses the City of Westminster, the London...
  
   (Chair, London Assembly, Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
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  )
• Reshard Auladin OBE (Vice chair, independent)

• Tony Arbour
  Tony Arbour
  Anthony Francis Arbour JP , commonly known as Tony Arbour, is a British Conservative Party politician, a Richmond councillor and member of the London Assembly representing South West London....
  
   (London Assembly, Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
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  )
• Jennette Arnold
  Jennette Arnold
  Jennette Arnold is a Labour Party politician and member of the London Assembly representing the London Boroughs of Hackney, Islington and Waltham Forest....
  
   (London Assembly, Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
  )
• Victoria Borwick
  Victoria Borwick
  Victoria Lorne Peta, Baroness Borwick is a British businesswoman and politician. After holding senior management positions with P & O and DMG World Media, she became director of fundraising for the Conservative Party...
  
   (London Assembly, Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  )
• James Cleverly
  James Cleverly
  James Spencer Cleverly is Leader of the Conservative group on the London Assembly, the Chairman of the London Waste and Recycling Board and until February 2010 was the Mayor of London's Ambassador for Youth. He was elected for the Bexley and Bromley constituency in May 2008 as a candidate of the...
  
   (London Assembly, Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  )
• Dee Doocey
  Dee Doocey
  Elizabeth Deirdre Doocey, Baroness Doocey OBE is a British Liberal Democrat politician and businesswoman, and a former Chair of the London Assembly. She was born Elizabeth Deirdre O'Keefe in Drumcondra, Dublin...
  
   (London Assembly, Liberal Democrat
  Liberal Democrats
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  )
• Jenny Jones
  Jenny Jones (Green politician)
  Jenny Jones is an English politician and prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. She currently represents the Green Party in the London Assembly, and is standing to be Mayor of London in the 2012 elections. She was Deputy Mayor of London from May 2003 to June 2004...
  
   (London Assembly, Green
  Green Party of England and Wales
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  )
• Joanne McCartney
  Joanne McCartney
  Joanne McCartney is a British Labour Party politician and barrister, a member of the London Assembly.McCartney worked as a barrister specialising in employment law and helped to establish a local Chambers in Enfield in the early 1990s...
  
   (London Assembly, Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
  )
• Stephen O'Connell (London Assembly, Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
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  )
• Caroline Pidgeon
  Caroline Pidgeon
  Caroline Pidgeon is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom and the leader of the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly.-Political career:...
  
   (London Assembly, Liberal Democrat
  Liberal Democrats
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  )
• Faith Boardman (independent)
• Christopher Boothman (independent)
• Valerie Brasse (independent)
• Cindy Butts (independent)
• The Lord Harris of Haringey
  Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey
  Jonathan Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords.Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he went on to become President of the Cambridge Union Society...
  
   (independent)
• Kirsten Hearn (independent)
• Neil Johnson (independent)
• Clive Lawton (independent)
• Graham Speed (independent)

Former members

• Boris Johnson (?-2010)
• Len Duvall (?-2008)
• Deborah Regal (2008-2010)
• Richard Tracey (2008-10)