Metropolitan Police Promotion Board Preparation
If you’re preparing for a Sergeant, Inspector or Chief Inspector board at Metropolitan Police, your panel already knows your force’s inspection picture. Here’s what that means for you, and how State6 builds it into your preparation.
Metropolitan Police HMICFRS snapshot
Most recent PEEL inspection: 2023-25 PEEL inspection
The Metropolitan Police faces serious concerns following the 2023-25 PEEL inspection, graded inadequate for both investigating crime and managing offenders, and requiring improvement across five further areas including leadership, workforce, and responding to the public.
PEEL grades
- Workforce: Requires improvement
- Leadership: Requires improvement
- Police powers: Adequate
- Preventing crime: Requires improvement
- Managing offenders: Inadequate
- Investigating crime: Inadequate
- Responding to public: Requires improvement
- Protecting vulnerable: Requires improvement
Causes of concern
- Investigating crime
- Managing offenders and suspects
Areas for improvement
- The force doesn't always record the ethnicity of the people stopped and searched by its officers
- The force needs to make sure its data is accurate and robust enough to understand the reasons for the disproportionate use of force
- The force's systems, management processes and training need to support consistent, effective problem-solving
- The force needs to minimise the time that neighbourhood officers are diverted away from their main duties to cover excess demand in response teams
- The force needs to improve how it involves the community in local decision‑making
- The force needs to attend calls for service in line with its published attendance times
Plus 15 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.
Recent inspection activity
Inspections published since the last full PEEL assessment. These are often the most current picture of Metropolitan Police, and the areas your panel is most likely to be conscious of right now.
Custody inspection · 7 August 2025
Report on an inspection visit to police custody suites in the Metropolitan Police Service
No formal grades or ratings are assigned in this report; instead, a cause of concern, one recommendation, and 20 areas for improvement are identified.
What this means for your board
A promotion board at Metropolitan Police 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 Metropolitan Police 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 Metropolitan Police
You don’t have to research any of this yourself. Metropolitan Police’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 Metropolitan Police’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 Metropolitan Police 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 Metropolitan Police, the College of Policing or HMICFRS. Inspection findings are summarised from the publicly available HMICFRS PEEL reports.