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. For officers on the Gold plan, presentation builds 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, included with Gold. A voiced AI chair asks rank-calibrated questions one at a time, listens to your spoken answer, asks a follow-up probe based on what you actually said, and keeps you to board timings. At the end the panel scores every answer against the marking framework for your force and gives you a written debrief covering structure, descriptor coverage, pace, filler words and your I-versus-we balance. You choose the chair: four personas, from encouraging to old school. Gold includes five boards. It is the only tool of its kind in the UK, where a human mock board typically costs around £380 for a single sitting.

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?

Each plan comes with separate allowances. AI Board Review credits score a complete answer, one credit per review. AI Coaching credits cover your coaching exchanges, one credit each, working section by section. Question credits generate practice questions for your rank and force, one credit per question. On Gold, Mock Board credits convene a full voice board, one credit per board, and an interrupted board resumes without using another. Gold also includes 10 presentation builds. Your plan shows exactly how many you have left. If you use everything before your 90 days end, you can start a new plan, and your saved answers and evidence stay intact throughout.

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, on the Gold plan. 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.

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

Build real answers for your Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board with AI coaching on every one, then sit the full board out loud against a voiced AI panel. Built by serving UK police officers.

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“It's like having an experienced coach.” L.M., PC preparing for a Sergeant board

State6 · Sergeant board preparation

Step 1 · Build your answer

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Your question

One of your most experienced officers is openly undermining you in front of the team. As their new Sergeant, how do you deal with it?

Scored to your rank's standard as you build

Supt David Okafor

board chair

Your question · out loud

One of your most experienced officers is openly undermining you in front of the team. As their new Sergeant, how do you deal with it?

You · live transcript

My position is that I deal with it early and in private, because authority you have to defend in public is authority you've already lost. So after the shift, I'd take them aside, name the specific behaviour, and

Marked as you speak · Sergeant standard

Acts earlyChallenges in privateNames the behaviour

Supt David Okafor

listening

Supt Okafor · follow-up probe

You said you'd deal with it in private. If the undermining carries on in front of the team the very next shift, what then?

You · live transcript

Then it becomes formal, and the team sees me address it in the moment. I'd call it out there and then, calmly, because private courtesy only survives if it's respected, and

Board debrief · Question 1

Tracking at pass standard

Sergeant standard · marked as a board marks

of 5

Clear position taken

Demonstrated

Evidence and reasoning

Demonstrated

Explored the tension

Partial

PEEL: Position and Evidence strong. The tension only surfaced when the panel went looking for it.

138

words / min

7 : 2

I vs we

filler words

Supt Okafor · closing

“A four. Clear position, and you handled the escalation well when pressed. The fifth mark sits in exploring that tension before the panel has to ask. That completes question one.”

The journey

From your first question to the Mock Board

The exact path you will follow in the app

Stop guessing what you will be asked. Generate board-style questions pitched at your rank and built around what HMICFRS inspectors actually found at your force, then 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. Nobody else in the UK has this.

The Debrief

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

Start with your first question →

Built for boards, not browsers

Why not just use AI?

Chat tools tidy your sentences and tell you what you want to hear. State6 is built on the framework your panel marks against, your force's real inspection findings and the patterns that cause candidates to fall short at every rank.

Scoring

Marked like a real board, point by point

Every answer is marked against the framework your panel uses, on your force's own scale, with the reasoning written out. Not a summary. Not a vibe check. You see exactly where the marks came from.

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.”

Rank

Pitched at the rank you are going for

A Chief Inspector board is not a Sergeant board. Questions, score ceilings and coaching tone all shift to match the rank you have applied for. A chat tool cannot tell the difference.

A chat tool says

“Strong response demonstrating clear leadership.”

State6 says

“This answer is pitched at Sergeant level. A Chief Inspector board expects force-wide thinking.”

Your force

Grounded in your force's inspection findings

All 43 forces are loaded. Your force's latest inspection findings and causes of concern are woven into every review, so your answers speak to what inspectors actually found.

A chat tool says

“Good use of national context and wider policing themes.”

State6 says

“Your force has an open cause of concern in this area. Your answer does not mention it.”

I versus we

Team language is caught and capped

Panels score what you did, not what the team did. If your Action section reads like a team effort, State6 caps the score and tells you why. A chat tool will compliment the same sentence.

A chat tool says

“Clear and well structured. Team coordination comes through.”

State6 says

“Six uses of 'we' in your Action section. Your score is capped. The panel needs to hear 'I'.”

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 →

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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 is buried across notebooks, emails and memory

You do not know which examples map to which descriptors

Every time you sit down to write, you are starting from scratch

Your answer is a story. The panel wants a structured response.

State6 turns what you have done into structured answers panels can score.

The result

You stop guessing what panels are looking for.

State6 takes what you have done and turns it into answers that score, pitched at your rank and grounded in your force's real inspection picture.

Your evidence. In one place.

Your evidence is organised and ready, not scattered across notebooks.

Answers pitched at your rank.

Not a Sergeant answer when the panel expects a Chief Inspector.

Force context woven in.

Your force's inspection picture is built into every answer. Not an afterthought.

Rehearsed under pressure.

You have already sat a full board out loud, against a chair who probes back under the clock.

What officers say

Officers preparing right now

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, preparing for 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, preparing for 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, preparing for 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, preparing for 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, preparing for 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.

You don't need a blockbuster example. You need a clear one.

The State6 founders

Serving Chief Inspector & 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.

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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. Gold gives you five, plus every tool on the platform, for £149.99.

Bronze

£69.99one-off · 90 days

For officers who want their evidence structured and scored.

30 AI Board Review credits
90 Question credits
HMICFRS force context in every review
Evidence Builder with PDF export

Get Bronze →

Silver

£99.99one-off · 90 days

For officers who want coaching on every answer, section by section.

Everything in Bronze, plus

150 AI Coaching credits, section by section
60 AI Board Review credits (up from 30)
225 Question credits (up from 90)
Revision cards
Priority email support
The Mock Board is Gold only

Get Silver →

Force & Cohort Pricing

Preparing a group of candidates? Site licences and bulk seat pricing are available for forces, federations, and training teams. Invoice-based procurement supported.

Common questions

Straight answers.

: A full promotion board you sit out loud, included with Gold. A voiced AI chair welcomes you, asks rank-calibrated questions one at a time, listens to your spoken answer, asks a follow-up probe based on what you actually said, and keeps you to board timings. At the end the panel scores every answer against the marking framework for your force and gives you a written debrief covering structure, descriptor coverage, pace, filler words and your I-versus-we balance. You choose the chair: four personas, from encouraging to old school. Gold includes five boards. It is the only tool of its kind in the UK, where a human mock board typically costs around £380 for a single sitting.
: 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. For officers on the Gold plan, presentation builds 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 Learn STANCE page.
: 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.
: Each plan comes with separate allowances. AI Board Review credits score a complete answer, one credit per review. AI Coaching credits cover your coaching exchanges, one credit each, working section by section. Question credits generate practice questions for your rank and force, one credit per question. On Gold, Mock Board credits convene a full voice board, one credit per board, and an interrupted board resumes without using another. Gold also includes 10 presentation builds. Your plan shows exactly how many you have left. If you use everything before your 90 days end, you can start a new plan, and your saved answers and evidence stay intact throughout.
: 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, on the Gold plan. 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 Learn STANCE page.

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