Chief Inspector to Superintendent 2021 Promotion Process
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A UNIQUE CITY.
A UNIQUE SET OF POLICING CHALLENGES.
A UNIQUE CAREER.
POLICING LONDON IS A CHALLENGE LIKE NO OTHER, AND WILL BRING NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
Superintendents and Detective Superintendents
LOCATIONS: ACROSS LONDON
OPEN TO: SUBSTANTIVE CHIEF INSPECTORS / DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTORS.
Our mission is to keep London safe
We're proud of our people and the job we do to police London. Over 40,000 colleagues are dedicated to serving 9 million residents and visitors of one of the world's most dynamic and diverse global cities.
London doesn’t stand still, and neither do we
In London’s Met you will have plenty of opportunities to continue your professional development. The Met is involved in a wide range of operations and policing events, each presenting their own distinct opportunities to broaden skill sets, on a scale that wouldn’t be found in any other police service.
Life as a Met Superintendent
Our ambition is to be the most trusted police service in the world. As a Superintendent, you will need to provide strong leadership in a time of unprecedented change within the UK’s largest Police Service.
We’ll look to you to deliver results in line with the Met’s organisational priorities, working in partnership to understand, realise and reflect the diverse needs of our customers and communities in all that we do. Being an integral part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will be responsible for driving through the largest change to take place in our organisation's history. You will achieve this up upholding our professional standards, overseeing the management of large teams and delivering projects, both locally, and across London.
As a leader, often with independent command, you'll face a number of challenges including driving dramatic crime reduction, ensuring that our policing style meets community expectations, and maintaining effective policing against a changing economic climate.
Who are we looking for?
This exciting career opportunity is open to substantive Chief Inspectors / Detective Chief Inspectors looking for promotion.
Please note that an external lateral Superintendents process will be launching mid-April 2021 which will be open to substantive Superintendents / Detective Superintendents. More information will be available on our website mid-April.
To be eligible to apply for this process, you must:
- Be a current substantive Chief Inspector / Detective Chief Inspector;
- Have an overall competent or exceptional PDR rating for the last performance year;
- Meet the Met’s attendance management criteria;
- Be free of any bar to promotion as a result of disciplinary outcomes.
All expressions of interest must be submitted by 23.55 hours on Tuesday 30th March 2021 and fully submitted applications by Monday 19th April 2021.
Candidate briefing
We will be holding a candidate briefing on Monday 29th March 2021 to provide you with further information on the process. The briefing will be hosted on Microsoft Teams and will be opened by the Assessment Director, Commander Melanie Dales. For anyone who is unable to attend the briefings, a recording of the session will be made available.
If you are interested in applying for this promotion opportunity and would like to attend, you can book onto a session by clicking on the links below:
Online session: 29 March 2021 (17:30-18:30)
Applicants who have been unsuccessful for promotion in their own force within the previous 12 months will need to provide the Met with specific feedback and development plan that demonstrates they have addressed the development areas. In addition applicants must be supported to apply for these roles by their current management team.
Queries in respect of this opportunity should be sent to the Met Promotions Team at metpromotions@police.sscl.com or by telephone on 01633 632500 (option 4).
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and women.
Appointments will be made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.
Policing a city as large, complex and culturally diverse as London presents a wide variety of challenges. It's why we're interested in new recruits with such a range of life experiences and backgrounds. And it's why the ability to build trust and relationships with very different people is so important. More than this, you will need to take genuine pride in making the capital's neighbourhoods safer for everyone.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Click 'Apply' to begin your online application.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.