| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another Ealing Police Boss Leaves After Three Years | |
| Posted by: | Chris Veasey | |
| Date/Time: | 26/07/10 12:01:00 |
| Ealing is not a city in the sense those of us from real cities in other parts of this island would understand; but (greater) London is not either - it's a conurbation and (in some respects) a county, two of whose 32/33(? - can't be bothered to check) component local authorities are abitrarily classed officially as 'cities' (they aren't real ones either). Eric has a point in principle re this borough's population size and consequent importance of the head police job; though generally elsewhere in this island policing is not done at city level (where cities exist) but (for better or worse) at county, region or some other wider territorial level. Poulation sizewise, if in no other respect, Ealing is in the same league as third-order cities such as Leicester, Nottingham, Hull, Cardiff, and the real city of Bradford (as opposed to the monster created in 1974). |