The CVF Framework
The 2024 College of Policing Competency and Values Framework defines what good leadership looks like at every rank. Every question on your promotion board maps to one or more of these nine areas. Knowing them is not enough — you need to be able to demonstrate them with specific, ranked, impact-led evidence.
2024 CVF Update
The framework was updated in 2024. It retains six competencies across three levels, but replaced the four 2016 values with three — Courage, Respect and Empathy, and Public Service — derived from the ethical policing principles. Levels are cumulative: if you are preparing for Inspector, you must demonstrate Level 1 AND Level 2 behaviours. Values have no levels — everyone is expected to display them equally regardless of rank.
We Are Emotionally Aware
Understanding ourselves and others: managing our own emotions and recognising the emotions of those around us to be more effective.
We Take Ownership
Taking personal responsibility for what we do and for making policing better: delivering results, making good decisions and learning from mistakes.
We Collaborate
Delivering effective policing by working with others: across our force, with partner organisations and with the public, building sustainable partnerships.
We Support and Inspire
Understanding the organisational vision, applying values day-to-day, creating the right climate for people to perform and supporting others to deliver effectively.
We Analyse Critically
Analysing diverse information and the best available evidence to make decisions and understand the root causes of complex issues.
We Are Innovative and Open-Minded
Inquisitive and outward-looking: searching for good practice, implementing creative working methods and remaining open to new ways of doing things.
Courage
Making, communicating and being accountable for decisions, and standing against anything that could bring our profession into disrepute.
Respect and Empathy
Encouraging, listening to and understanding the views of others, and seeking to recognise and respond to the physical, mental and emotional challenges that we and other people may face.
Public Service
Working in the public interest, fostering public trust and confidence and taking pride in providing an excellent service to the public.
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24 pages of corporate language. Translated into one page of operational reality.
The College of Policing CVF is what your panel scores you against. Most officers have never read it properly.
- ✓The exact trap for each of the 6 CVF competencies — the ones good officers fall into without realising
- ✓The 2024 values update — and what happens if your examples still reference the 2016 framework
- ✓A rank calibration check for every transition: constable → sergeant → inspector → chief inspector
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Inside the CVF Explorer
The State6 CVF Explorer goes beyond the list. For every competency and value, at every rank, you get:
- Rank-specific behavioural indicators — exactly what assessors look for at Sergeant, Inspector and Chief Inspector
- Common mistakes candidates make at each level and why they cost marks
- Language that lands — phrases that signal you already think at the next rank
- Evidence prompts to help you identify and prepare the right examples
The CVF Explorer is part of State6. Choose a plan to unlock it and start preparing against the framework your panel actually uses.
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