Sergeant to Inspector Promotion Process 2023

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Inspector / Detective Inspector

A UNIQUE CITY. A UNIQUE SET OF POLICING CHALLENGES. A UNIQUE CAREER.

POLICING LONDON IS A CHALLENGE LIKE NO OTHER.


Inspectors and Detective Inspectors

LOCATIONS: ACROSS LONDON


OPEN TO: SUBSTANTIVE SERGEANTS ON PROMOTION WHO HOLD A VALID NPPF OR OSPRE PART I / PART II QUALIFICATION.

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 an inspector

Our ambition is to be the most trusted police service in the world. As an inspector, you will need to provide strong leadership and management in a time of unprecedented change within the UK’s largest Police Service. The trust and confidence of our customers and communities will be a direct reflection of how you fulfil the challenges of the role. You will achieve this by leading by example, upholding our professional standards, and showing personal flexibility in the face of change.

We’ll look to you to deliver results in line with the Met’s mission and vision, values and priorities, working collaboratively with partners to understand and manage the diverse needs of our customers and communities in all that we do.

As a leader, you’ll face a number of challenges including achieving continued crime reduction, partnerships, increasing community confidence and leading our people so they can be the very best they can be.

Who are we looking for?

To be eligible to apply for this process you must:

  • Be a current substantive sergeant/ detective sergeant at the point of sitting and passing their inspectors NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. **
  • Have a valid inspectors NPPF Step Two Legal Examination pass/OPSRE part I or former OPSRE part II;
  • 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. 

  

**To be classed as a substantive sergeant, officers on WBA must have completed a mandatory period of 12-month temporary promotion before they can be made substantive, regardless of whether WBA elements have been completed in a shorter period of time.  Officers must also have a WBA PDR signed off by their line manager. As prescribed by the College of Policing, there is no flexibility or deviation from this.

All expressions of interest must be submitted by Monday, 23 January, with completed applications being submitted by 23.55 on Friday, 3 February 2023.

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.

 

Candidate briefings

We will be holding a candidate briefings in January to provide you with further information on the process. The briefings will be hosted on Microsoft Teams and will be opened by assessment director Alexis Boon. For anyone who is unable to attend the briefings, a recording of the sessions 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:

 

Queries in respect of this opportunity should be sent to the Met Promotions Team at metpromotions@police.sscl.com

We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all London's communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.

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.

NB. Please note that for substantive inspectors applying for a lateral transfer there is a separate job advert and information pack to refer to.

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.

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This opportunity is closed to applications.