Chief Inspector to Superintendent Promotion Process 2024
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More Trust; Less Crime; High Standards – it takes you.
The Met is seeking outstanding leaders to join its senior leadership team. Policing London is a privilege and serving the diverse communities is at the heart of this privilege. Protect a city that can rival any in the world for its history, vibrancy, diversity and culture.
LOCATIONS: ACROSS LONDON
OPEN TO: SUBSTANTIVE TRANSFERREES AND SUBSTANTIVE CHIEF INSPECTORS / DETECTIVE CHIEF INSPECTORS ON PROMOTION.
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. You will bring to life through your leadership our values of respect, integrity, empathy, courage and accountable.
This is a role where you have a once in a generation opportunity to be at the forefront of delivering the reform we have promised London - delivering A New Met for London. That will take commitment, passion and determination.
We are seeking officers with a strong track record in operational delivery. You will be expected to work with Londoners to tackle crime and make neighbourhoods safer – together, helping to build the strongest neighbourhood policing London has seen. You will deliver the kind of policing that truly puts the public first.
Relationship building will be one of your strengths – externally with a range of local, London wide and national partners and stakeholders. Internal relationships are as important too. You will work hard to set your people up to succeed and create an environment where our frontline has what it needs to do this difficult job for London – and do it well.
As a leader you will evidence your commitment to high standards and determination to drive out those who fall short. We expect you to live our values, bringing them to life for your team so they are more than just words. We are changing our culture and you will have an active part to play in that.
Your decision making will be guided by our principles starting with putting the needs of the Londoners above all else.
We’ve got bold plans and things are changing in the Met. Being a superintendent, matters more now than ever in delivering more trust; less crime and high standards.
We are committed to flexible and blended working, whether this be job share or compressed hours. We are also happy to offer more choice on future roles to enable flexibility.
Who are we looking for?
This exciting career opportunity is open to substantive chief inspectors / detective chief inspectors looking for promotion, and superintendents / detective superintendents with a proven track record of effective delivery are also encouraged to apply.
To be eligible to apply for this process, internal candidates must:
- Be a current substantive chief inspector / detective chief inspector as of Monday, 18 March 2024;
- Meet the Met’s attendance management criteria;
- Be free of any bar to promotion as a result of disciplinary outcomes.
- Complete a professional standards declaration within Oleeo.
- Have an approved Career Development Plan, goals and work objectives uploaded in the LMS. Your plan should detail your aspirations for promotion. In addition, you must ensure that all officers and staff within the team(s) you lead (if applicable) also have a live career development plan, goals and work objectives on LMS.
To be eligible to apply for this process, external candidates must:
- Be a current substantive chief inspector / detective chief inspector or substantive superintendent / detective superintendent as of Monday, 18 March 2024;
- Meet the Met’s attendance management criteria;
- Be free of any bar to promotion as a result of disciplinary outcomes.
- Complete a professional standards declaration within Oleeo.
- Have an overall competent or exceptional PDR rating for the last performance year.
- Be working in a Home Office force or if you are currently serving in a Non-Home Office Force then you must have worked in a Home Office Force within the last 5 years and passed your probation within a Home Office Force.
Candidates must ensure that they contact their verifier(s) in advance of application submission to advise on the content of the example they are cited to verify. Verifier(s) must be minimum of one rank/band above.
All expressions of interest must be submitted by 23:55 on Monday, 25 March 2024 and fully submitted applications by 23:55 on Wednesday, 10 April 2024.
Candidate briefing
We will be holding online candidate briefings for internal and external candidates, prior to the closure of the expression of interest window to provide you with an insight into this promotion process. The briefing will be hosted on Microsoft Teams and will be opened by the assessment director and guest speakers who will provide advice as to how you can look to prepare for this process. 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:
Internal candidate briefing: Tuesday 19 March 11:00-12:00 Book
External candidate briefing: Tuesday 19 March 14:00-15:00 Book
Once you have booked onto the above event you will be sent a Microsoft Teams invite 24 hours prior to the event.
If you are unable to attend the candidate briefing, a recording of the event will be circulated to all candidates that have submitted an expression of interest.
*Please note that candidates will need to book onto the event by midday on Monday, 18 March to allow for MS Team calendar invites to be shared with candidates. If candidates have not been able to book onto the event before this time, they will need to email metpromotions@police.sscl.com
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) for external candidates and 01633 630934 (option 5 followed by option 3) for internal candidates.
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.