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Mounted MPS officer outside Buckingham Palace, London. The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, England is organised into five main directorates, each headed by an Assistant Commissioner, and four civilian-staffed support departments previously under the umbrella of Met Headquarters, each headed by a Chief Officer, the equivalent civilian grade to Assistant Commissioner.
Surrey Police now operates the PLC (police, law & community) course method of training and recruitment. This course ensures that potential recruits already possess knowledge of police law before applying to join Surrey Police. The course is run by several colleges in Surrey, as well as the University of Portsmouth. Although the PLC certificate ...
Police forces in the UK often come under scrutiny for their lack of diversity. [10] During a recruitment campaign arguing that police forces needed to reflect the communities they serve, Lord Woolley , a trustee of the charity, claimed the lack of diversity in UK police forces could be attributed to stop and search and criminalisation of young ...
The public will see adverts aimed at driving up the number of new police constables on billboards, the Underground and social and digital platforms. Metropolitan Police launches recruitment drive ...
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police, or simply the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.
Current police forces have their grounding in the Police Act 1996 (in England and Wales), a combination of Police (Scotland) Act 1967 and Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (in Scotland) and the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 (in Northern Ireland), which prescribe a number of issues such as appointment of a chief constable ...
The overall provisional headcount of officers in England and Wales is now 139,908, according to Home Office figures to the end of September.
The post of commissioner is "accountable to the Home Secretary; to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, and must answer to Londoners and the public nationally." [7] In 2008 and 2011, applicants to the post of commissioner had to be British citizens (in 2008 this was explicitly stated to be because of the role of the commissioner in national security), and be "serving UK chief constables ...