I’m not sure what I want from our security services, but security sounds good.
Also I wonder if there is a background level of foreign agent activity they accept and how is that related to the police’s paradox of using confidential informants
Yup, there's constantly a number of known spies in pretty much all countries. If all were ejected, the other country would do the same to their spies and monitoring compliance with projects would become harder - so it seems in everyone's interest to not be too strict. See for example https://johnsontr.github.io/assets/files/spies_current.pdf
Also there's the idea of "the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" which generalises to lots of things - including this one.
Nothing will improve as long as Khan is Mayor, and may not even if he is replaced.
Anyway, MI6 (SIS) is the overseas spies, MI5 is the domestic spy agency.
That the perpetrators may turn out to be foreign agents is neither here nor there, only if they were diplomatic staff would it not be a domestic policing issue. However the UK police have largely withdrawn from certain areas, and this would simply be another symptom.
High Court action suggests there was a civil case pursuing the perpetrators (or their principals), rather than a criminal case. With a properly functioning police system, that should not be necessary.
Kahn is the PCC for London, he sets their priorities.
It is the job of the British intelligence services to blow someone up in Riyadh to deter these activities.
Can you guarantee that something like this will never happen on your watch?
>Homicide rate now 1.1 per 100,000 people, lower than any other UK city and major global cities including New York (2.8), Berlin (3.2) and Toronto (1.6)
I guess you'll praise Khan, as PCC, for that?