City of London Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at City of London, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
City of London HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2023-25 PEEL inspection
City of London Police received good grades for responding to the public and investigating crime in the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, and an outstanding grade for data recording.
PEEL grades
- Workforce: Adequate
- Leadership: Adequate
- Police powers: Adequate
- Recording data: Outstanding
- Preventing crime: Adequate
- Managing offenders: Adequate
- Investigating crime: Good
- Responding to public: Good
- Protecting vulnerable: Adequate
Areas for improvement
- The force needs to improve how it records equality data
- The force needs to improve how it records information and reviews data to better understand its use of stop and search
- The force needs to improve its understanding of why officers use force in some circumstances
- The partnership and prevention hub requires a better governance and performance framework
- The force should improve its problem-solving processes, including evaluation and a consistent way of storing plans
- The force doesn't consistently achieve appropriate outcomes for victims
Plus 3 more areas identified in the full inspection. Inside State6, each is mapped to the CVF competencies it affects, so you know exactly what to evidence.
What this means for your board
A promotion board at City of London isn’t only assessing whether you can lead a team. It’s assessing whether you understand the force you’re asking to lead in, and where your leadership fits its priorities. Officers who connect their examples to what City of London is actually focused on stand out. Officers who stay inside their own team don’t.
You don’t do this by quoting the inspection report. You do it by letting your force’s priorities shape the decisions in your answers. If you want the full method, read our guide on what HMICFRS grades mean for your promotion board.
How State6 prepares you for City of London
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. City of London’s real HMICFRS picture is built into State6. The Question Bank shapes practice questions around it, and every AI Board Review weaves your force’s context into the feedback on your answers. You’re preparing for the board you’ll actually sit, at the force you’ll actually sit it in.
You can also sit a full voiced AI mock board calibrated to City of London’s inspection picture, answering out loud while the panel listens, probes and scores you against the CVF 2024.
Calibrated to your target rank, too. See what panels look for at sergeant, inspector and chief inspector level.
Prepare for your City of London board
Practice questions, AI board reviews and your force’s inspection picture, all in one place. Choose a plan and start building today.
Get started with State6 →State6 is an independent preparation platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to City of London, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.