Mary Reid

Our Borough Commander, Chief Superintendant Angela List, is retiring at the end of the month. So I held a lunch reception in the Parlour to bid her farewell and to present her with an engraved plaque to remind her of her times at Kingston.

In the 1980s she was posted to Kings Cross where she dealt with a high level of vice-related crime. For some reason or other the Met seemed to think that this prepared her for the next stage in her career, in the Royalty Protection team.

But she returned to normal duties in London 13 years ago and was eventually promoted to the highest Police rank in Kingston - another 'Royal' posting, it seems.

Angela has been totally committed to community policing and has had a real impact on the success of our Safer Neighbourhood teams, for which we thank her.

We wish her well in her retirement.