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The Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC) is the volunteer police force of the Metropolitan Police Service. [4] It is one of three Special Constabularies operating within London, the others being part of the City of London Police and British Transport Police. The service was created over 190 years ago under the Special Constables Act 1831.
Successful completion of the IPLDP will result in the police officer being awarded a Diploma in Policing (from January 2010 onwards). [6] This is a Level 3 qualification within the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) which replaced the older Level 3 and 4 National Vocational Qualification on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).
In relation to police officers of the Home Office or territorial police forces of England and Wales, section 30 of the Police Act 1996 states that "a member of a police force shall have all the powers and privileges of a Constable throughout England and Wales and the adjacent United Kingdom waters". Police officers do not need to be on duty to ...
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 was one of the first to introduce a cadet corps or force in 1948, intended to boost then-low recruitment levels (it was then 3,000 below its 'establishment' figure of 28,000, with officers working two of their monthly 'rest days' and being paid for this work).
Police recruitment needs to be “far more rigorous”, a watchdog told MPs as he warned it would be “plainly inadequate” for forces to hire officers through a purely online process ...
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced that the UK Border Agency (UKBA) "...will bring together the work of the Border and Immigration Agency, UK Visas and parts of HM Revenue and Customs at the border, [and] will work closely with the police and other law enforcement agencies to improve border controls and security." [121]
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 ...