Lateral External Superintendent 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 FOR EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED OFFICER.
Superintendents and Detective Superintendents
LOCATIONS: ACROSS LONDON
OPEN TO: SUBSTANTIVE SUPERINTENDENTS / DETECTIVE SUPERINTENDENTS.
Our mission is to keep London safe
As London’s Met, we have plenty to be proud of. We’re proud of the quality 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 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 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 place in our organisation's history. You will achieve this by 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 achieving continued 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 Superintendents / Detective Superintendents with a proven track record of effective delivery.
To be eligible to apply for this process, you must
- Be a current substantive Superintendent or Detective Superintendent;
- Have an overall competent or exceptional PDR rating for the performance year ending 31st March 2021;
- Meet the MPS attendance management criteria;
- Be free of any bar to promotion as a result of discipline outcomes;
- Currently be serving in a Home Office force, or BTP
- All mandatory training to be up to date.
All expressions of interest must be submitted by 23.55 hours on Sunday 20th June 2021. There is no competency based application form this year.
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 will be holding a candidate briefing on Thursday 10th June to provide you 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 candidate briefing, a recording of the session will be made available.
If you are interested in applying for this opportunity and would like to attend, you can book onto the session by clicking on the link below:
- Online session: 10th June 2021 (16.15-17.15) Book
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.
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.