Sir Mark Rowley was appointed to the post on 8 July 2022[3] after Dame Cressida Dick announced her resignation in February 2022.

For the force's first ten years, commissioners were known as "justices of the peace of the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and of all the liberties therein".

Like all chief officer ranks in the British police, commissioners wear gorget patches on the collars of their tunics.

[7] The post of commissioner is "accountable to the Home Secretary; to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and must answer to Londoners and the public nationally.

[7][8] In contrast, applicants in 2018 were told that the post of commissioner was "non reserved"[9] (seemingly a reference to the Aliens' Employment Act 1955 (as amended)[10]) and that there were no specific restrictions on nationality.

In particular, suggesting a series of community interview panels and a public candidate forum – though they maintain that the final decision should still rest with the Home Secretary.