Is State6 affiliated with the College of Policing or any official police body?

No. State6 is an independent preparation tool built by serving officers who understand the promotion process. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the College of Policing, HMICFRS, or any force. It prepares you against the marking framework your panel will work from. For most forces that is the CVF 2024.

Does it cover my force?

All 43 Home Office forces are loaded. Your force's HMICFRS inspection findings, causes of concern, and competency picture are built into every review and coaching session. If your force has been inspected recently, that picture is already in there. The Met runs its own future focused promotion process rather than the CVF, and State6 includes a dedicated Met mode built around it; see state6.co.uk/met-police-promotion. You can see your force's inspection summary on the forces page at state6.co.uk/forces.

What rank levels does it support?

State6 supports Sergeant, Inspector, and Chief Inspector boards. Questions, scoring ceilings, and coaching tone all adjust to match the rank you're applying for. STANCE presentations are rank calibrated too: the model adjusts its scope depending on whether you're presenting at sergeant, inspector, or chief inspector level.

What is the Mock Board?

A full promotion board you sit out loud. A voiced chair asks the questions one at a time, listens to your spoken answer, probes what you actually said, and keeps you to board timings. At the end the panel scores every answer against your framework and gives you a written debrief.

What do I need to sit a Mock Board?

A microphone, a quiet room, and about ten minutes per question. A headset gives the cleanest sound both ways. It works in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on desktop and Android, and on iPhones running a current version of iOS. If your browser cannot stream speech reliably, State6 tells you before a board credit is used, never after. If you lose connection or close the page mid-board, the board waits for you and resuming costs nothing.

Is my voice recorded or stored?

No. Your speech is transcribed live during the board and the audio is never stored, by us or anyone else. Only the written transcript is kept, saved privately to your account alongside your debrief, where you can review or delete it like any other evidence.

How do credits work, and what happens when they run out?

The Promotion plan comes with separate allowances for reviews, coaching, questions, mock boards and presentations, and your plan page shows exactly how many you have left. If you use everything before your days end, you can start a new plan and your saved work stays intact.

What happens to my answers and evidence when my access expires?

When your plan ends, your access to platform features expires. Your account and everything you've written remain intact while the account is open. If you choose to close your account, your data is deleted within 30 days of that request. Nothing is removed automatically when your plan expires.

Is my data private? Can anyone else see my answers?

Your answers, evidence, and coaching sessions are private to your account. State6 doesn't share your content with other officers, your force, or any third party.

How accurate is the force information?

The HMICFRS inspection data in State6 is sourced directly from published PEEL reports. Each force profile includes the most recent findings available at the time of the last update. State6 shows you the date the data was last updated for your force. If it's more than 18 months old, check the HMICFRS website at hmicfrs.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk directly for any interim inspections.

I am already using ChatGPT to practise. Why would I switch?

ChatGPT doesn't know the CVF descriptors, your force's inspection picture, or what rank you're applying for. It can't cap your score for collective language, track where you are in your coaching, or spot the patterns across your last twelve answers. It also can't generate a presentation model calibrated to your rank or produce slides from it. It'll tell you your answer is strong. State6 will tell you exactly which descriptor you missed and why a panel would mark you down.

How quickly will I see a difference in my answers?

Most officers notice a shift after their first full review. The scoring is specific enough that you immediately see which descriptors you're hitting and which you're not. By your third or fourth session you're not just writing better answers. You're thinking in the framework. That's exactly what panels are listening for.

Does State6 help with the presentation part of my board?

Yes. The presentation builder walks you through STANCE, our six step framework for structured board presentations. Enter your topic and rank, and State6 generates a model showing exactly what each section needs to cover at your level. Build your answer section by section, coaching each one across three rounds. When you're ready, export your slides as a PowerPoint file, your content on screen and your full answer in the presenter notes, ready to rehearse from. The full framework is at state6.co.uk/learn-stance.

October special

Price reduction. The Promotion plan is £99.99 this month , usually ~~£149.99~~

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AI mock boards and coachingAI mock boards and answer coaching for UK police promotion

Walk into your police promotion board knowing exactly what you’ll say

Write your own interview answers and have every one coached and marked with personal feedback. Then sit the full board out loud against a voiced AI panel, scored against the same framework your board marks to.

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“It's like having an experienced coach.” L.M., who went on to pass their Sergeant board

AI Board Review

Sergeant · We Take Ownership

Staffordshire's PEEL inspection found incidents were being downgraded without proper supervisory oversight and that attendance times had not improved. As a newly promoted sergeant, how would you address that on your own team?

Overall

Strong. Clearly demonstrated at this rank.

Marked in under two minutes · example fit strong · pitch on target · 632 words

4 / 5

PEEL structural assessment

Position5

Evidence4

Explore the tension5

Lead4

Evidence, 4. You cite the inspection finding accurately and reinforce it with a credible observed pattern, and the detail that 'the National Decision Model is on the wall of every briefing room and is almost never written on a downgrade' is a sharp, specific point.

CVF descriptor scores · 5 marked

DemonstratedMonitoring the team's progress so deadlines and objectives are met

PartialDelegating with clear direction that plays to people's strengths

Not evidencedActively supporting action against bias or prejudice

Improvement priority 1. Bring an individual officer into the ownership story.

Panel probe questions · 1 of 3

“Imagine an experienced constable openly challenges your downgrade rule in briefing, saying it signals you don't trust their judgement. How do you handle that in the moment?”

A real review · yours to keep as a PDF

The journey

From your first question to the Mock Board

The exact path you will follow in the app

60 sec film

One board. One chance to pass.

Watch one candidate go from freezing to passing. 60 seconds, with sound.

Board-style questions pitched at your rank and built around what inspectors found at your force. Send any of them straight into the builder.

Question Generator

Board-style questions for your rank, grounded in your force's HMICFRS findings.

Answer Builders

STARR for past experience. PEEL, our own framework, for forward facing. Scored as you write.

AI Coaching

Coaching that quotes your exact words, remembers every session and never repeats itself.

Presentation Builder

Built section by section for your rank, exported to slides you practise from.

Mock Board

The full board out loud, probed and scored by a voiced chair. The only AI voiced mock promotion board in the UK.

The Debrief

Every answer marked and your delivery measured, yours to keep as a PDF.

Built for boards, not browsers

Marked like a board, not a chat tool

Chat tools tidy your sentences and tell you what you want to hear. State6 marks you the way your panel will.

A chat tool says

“Good answer. Covers the key points well.”

State6 says

“We Take Ownership: not demonstrated. Your Action section carries no descriptor evidence for it.”

Metropolitan Police

Going for promotion in the Met? The Met marks differently. So do we.

The Met's promotion process runs on a future focused interview, scored on a 1 to 4 potential model rather than the CVF. State6 includes a dedicated Met mode built around it: future focused questions grounded in the Met's own HMICFRS findings, answers built and reviewed on the Met's scale, and a Mock Board debriefed the way a Met panel marks.

How State6 covers the Met →

The issue

You arrive at your board with the right experience and the wrong structure. State6 is the fix.

You've passed the written exam. You have the evidence ready. The gap is not experience. It is knowing how to frame it the way panels score.

Your evidence

Buried across notebooks, emails and memory, with no idea which examples map to which descriptors.

Organised in one place and mapped to the descriptors your panel marks.

Your answers

You tell a story. The panel wants a structured response.

Built section by section into an answer that scores, pitched at your rank, with your force's inspection picture woven in.

Your time

Every time you sit down to write, you start from scratch.

Your work is saved, and your coach remembers every session.

Your delivery

You have never said it out loud under pressure.

You have already sat a full board, probed by a chair, under the clock.

What officers say

Every officer below passed their board

These quotes were written while they prepared with State6. Every one of them went on to pass.

Really impressed. The ability to tailor questions not only to rank but to force. It picks up intuitively on force level priorities. Also the ability to grade questions including the ones you don't want to ask. Love it.

Inspector, passed their Chief Inspector board

M.A.

It's like having an experienced coach to advise and develop the answers you think you'd give at the board and then having them tweaked for the better.

PC, passed their Sergeant board

L.M.

The ability to get targeted questions based on what you are currently working on and then instant custom feedback on your answers is unique. A really great system that really helps with interview practice.

Sergeant, passed their Inspector board

Imagine being able to hold practice interviews, as many times as you like, and getting feedback each time. That's exactly what this does. The feedback was genuinely useful, and it updated each time I retried an answer. It's like having a coach on hand to practise with whenever you want.

PC, passed their Sergeant board

So impressed with the guidance this gives. It's thought provoking, and gives genuine, worthwhile direction to improve my answers and expand my knowledge to get me through the board.

Inspector, passed their Chief Inspector board

A note from the founders

We built State6 because we got tired of watching good officers fail boards they should have passed.

We've watched strong officers, sergeants who've run complex jobs, inspectors who've commanded major incidents, sit down in front of a panel and lose marks they never needed to lose. Not because they weren't good enough. Because no one had ever properly trained them on how a board interview actually works, or what the marking framework actually rewards.

The pattern is almost always the same. Candidates turn up with the right experience and the wrong structure. They give a story instead of an answer, or pitch their example at the wrong rank. Fixable things, but only if someone tells you.

Once you learn to structure an answer properly, in the right model, the interview becomes a process you can prepare for. Not a performance you have to deliver. Any situation from your career can be adapted to the framework and used.

The State6 founders

Serving Superintendent & Inspector · 38 years of frontline service · 4 forces

We are serving officers, so you won't see our faces here. You'll see our standard in every review.

Read our full story →

Pricing

Pay once. Get started.

Start the moment you check out. Your credits are ready when you are.

A single human mock board costs around £380. The Promotion plan gives you five, plus every tool on the platform, for £99.99 in October (usually £149.99).

October special£50 off for the whole month

Ends 31 Oct

The Promotion plan

£99.99~~£149.99~~one-off · 90 days

October price. Applied automatically at checkout, nothing to type.

Everything you need to walk in having already sat the board.

5 voiced Mock Boards: the full board out loud, sat cold or rehearsing your own answers, with a scored debrief
90 AI Board Reviews, marked against the framework your board uses
300 AI Coaching rounds on your answers, section by section
450 practice questions generated at your rank and force
STANCE presentation builder: 10 coached presentations with slides to practise from
Voice coaching: speak your answer, get coached instantly
Revision cards for every reviewed answer
HMICFRS force context in every review
STARR and PEEL answer builders with My Portfolio and PDF export
Priority email support

Get the Promotion plan at £99.99 →

For applicants

Joining the Police

£39.99one-off · 90 days

For applicants preparing for the competency based interview and the written exercise.

20 AI Interview Review credits, scored at CVF Level 1
5 voiced Mock CBI interviews in the real College format
5 timed Written Exercise sittings
252 AI Coaching credits and 60 Question credits
Free guides to the entry routes, the assessment and police pay

New to the process? Read the Joining the Police guide first.

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For serving officers

Applying for Your Next Role

£69.99one-off · 60 days

For serving officers, Constable to Chief Inspector, applying for an advertised post.

Upload the advert as text, a PDF or a photo
30 AI Board Reviews, with person spec verdicts against that post
Application and sift review of your draft, using the same 30 review credits
90 practice questions at the rank of the post, shaped by the advert
2 voiced Mock Boards, rehearsing your own saved answers out loud with a scored debrief
100 AI Coaching credits and 5 STANCE presentation credits
Up to 3 saved adverts, so you can prepare for more than one post

Your Mock Boards rehearse your own saved answers for the post. Boards with fresh unseen questions are calibrated for promotion and stay on the Promotion plan.

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Common questions

Straight answers.

: A full promotion board you sit out loud. A voiced chair asks the questions one at a time, listens to your spoken answer, probes what you actually said, and keeps you to board timings. At the end the panel scores every answer against your framework and gives you a written debrief. Read how the mock board works.
: All 43 Home Office forces are loaded. Your force's HMICFRS inspection findings, causes of concern, and competency picture are built into every review and coaching session. If your force has been inspected recently, that picture is already in there. The Met runs its own future focused promotion process rather than the CVF, and State6 includes a dedicated Met mode built around it; see the Met promotion page. You can see your force's inspection summary on the forces page.
: State6 supports Sergeant, Inspector, and Chief Inspector boards. Questions, scoring ceilings, and coaching tone all adjust to match the rank you're applying for. STANCE presentations are rank calibrated too: the model adjusts its scope depending on whether you're presenting at sergeant, inspector, or chief inspector level. Read more on the presentation structure guide.
: ChatGPT doesn't know the CVF descriptors, your force's inspection picture, or what rank you're applying for. It can't cap your score for collective language, track where you are in your coaching, or spot the patterns across your last twelve answers. It also can't generate a presentation model calibrated to your rank or produce slides from it. It'll tell you your answer is strong. State6 will tell you exactly which descriptor you missed and why a panel would mark you down.
: The Promotion plan comes with separate allowances for reviews, coaching, questions, mock boards and presentations, and your plan page shows exactly how many you have left. If you use everything before your days end, you can start a new plan and your saved work stays intact. See what each plan includes.
: No. State6 is an independent preparation tool built by serving officers who understand the promotion process. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the College of Policing, HMICFRS, or any force. It prepares you against the marking framework your panel will work from. For most forces that is the CVF 2024.
: A microphone, a quiet room, and about ten minutes per question. A headset gives the cleanest sound both ways. It works in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on desktop and Android, and on iPhones running a current version of iOS. If your browser cannot stream speech reliably, State6 tells you before a board credit is used, never after. If you lose connection or close the page mid-board, the board waits for you and resuming costs nothing.
: No. Your speech is transcribed live during the board and the audio is never stored, by us or anyone else. Only the written transcript is kept, saved privately to your account alongside your debrief, where you can review or delete it like any other evidence.
: When your plan ends, your access to platform features expires. Your account and everything you've written remain intact while the account is open. If you choose to close your account, your data is deleted within 30 days of that request. Nothing is removed automatically when your plan expires. You can read the full privacy policy before you sign up.
: Your answers, evidence, and coaching sessions are private to your account. State6 doesn't share your content with other officers, your force, or any third party. You can read the full privacy policy before you sign up.
: The HMICFRS inspection data in State6 is sourced directly from published PEEL reports. Each force profile includes the most recent findings available at the time of the last update. State6 shows you the date the data was last updated for your force. If it's more than 18 months old, check the HMICFRS website directly for any interim inspections.
: Most officers notice a shift after their first full review. The scoring is specific enough that you immediately see which descriptors you're hitting and which you're not. By your third or fourth session you're not just writing better answers. You're thinking in the framework. That's exactly what panels are listening for.
: Yes. The presentation builder walks you through STANCE, our six step framework for structured board presentations. Enter your topic and rank, and State6 generates a model showing exactly what each section needs to cover at your level. Build your answer section by section, coaching each one across three rounds. When you're ready, export your slides as a PowerPoint file, your content on screen and your full answer in the presenter notes, ready to rehearse from. The full framework is on the presentation structure guide.

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Going for promotion

Joining the police

Guides

Walk into your police promotion board knowing exactly what you’ll say

Sergeant · We Take Ownership

From your first question to the Mock Board

Question Generator

Answer Builders

AI Coaching

Presentation Builder

Mock Board

The Debrief

Marked like a board, not a chat tool

Going for promotion in the Met? The Met marks differently. So do we.

You arrive at your board with the right experience and the wrong structure. State6 is the fix.

Your evidence

Your answers

Your time

Your delivery

Every officer below passed their board

Pay once. Get started.

The Promotion plan

Joining the Police

Applying for Your Next Role

Force & Cohort Pricing

Straight answers.

You already have the evidence. You just need the structure.

Question Generator

Answer Builders

AI Coaching

Presentation Builder

Mock Board

The Debrief

You arrive at your board with the right experience and the wrong structure. State6 is the fix.

Your evidence

Your answers

Your time

Your delivery

Every officer below passed their board