https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2014/4965-0

Answer for Transparency in the Metropolitan Police Service (Supplementary) [1]
Answered By:
Boris Johnson (Mayor of London) & Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe (Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis)
Date:
Tuesday, 9th December 2014

Boris Johnson (Mayor of London): I certainly think that the MPS should, if there is any question of a crime being committed by somebody who is a freemason, and the member of the MPS knows it, the trouble is that they have to register their membership of the freemasons. However, as I understand it, you do not have an existing register of all cops who are masons.



Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM (Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis): What we have, and I was incomplete in my answer, I am sorry about that, is that we have a register of what I call associations, so there are things like we have a list here and I will not read right through it, however if you have a relationship with a person with convictions, if you have a relationship with persons charged with a criminal offence, these are associations that should be notified for the obvious reasons really, and so you go on. I think we are about the only organisation that says you have to declare membership of the BNP [British National Party], for example, and it is incompatible with being a police officer. Therefore I think we can show we have had that register and that sort of duty to report. Where I think the deeper question perhaps might be is whether this particular organisation, if we should have to register it. CONTINUED ON SITE ABOVE /////