Benefits

By joining the Metropolitan Police Service, you will be helping to protect the lives of London’s communities. There’s nothing more rewarding than knowing that your efforts are having an impact on such a large and diverse community.

You will also receive substantial annual leave, Civil Service Pension arrangements, interest free season ticket loans, membership of Met sports and social clubs, flexible working conditions and much more.

In Commercial Services, we are absolutely dedicated to developing our teams and providing career enhancing opportunities for individuals to progress their careers. We will facilitate this by providing:

• opportunities to get involved in a variety of interesting commercial projects

• stretching and challenging objectives aligned to your personal goals as well as our strategic commercial priorities

• access to bespoke commercial and leadership development programmes

• networking across the public and private sector

• mentoring and coaching opportunities

We support each and every individual who joins and you can be assured that you will have the right training at the right time. When you first join you will enjoy a smooth and supportive on-boarding process, with the help of a dedicated peer buddy, meeting colleagues from across the Commercial team and wider organisation.

When you start as a member of Police Staff, you'll have a choice of joining one of the Civil Service Pension scheme:

• The Alpha pension scheme is a CARE (Career Average Revalued Earnings) pension scheme which offers a guaranteed pension with an optional lump sum, based on the earnings you receive during your career. Both you and the MPS will make contributions to the scheme and you will receive tax relief on the contributions you make.

• The Partnership pension scheme is a defined contribution stakeholder pension scheme and the MPS will make contributions based on your age. You do not have to make any payments to have a partnership pension account as your employer will make contributions anyway. These contributions would be in addition to the age related contributions previously mentioned. Contributions are invested for you by the nominated provider and you can use the resulting pot to fund your retirement. You will receive tax relief on any contributions you make.

If you already have a pension it may be possible to transfer it into the Civil Service pension arrangements.

You will automatically be entered into Alpha on appointment unless we receive your pension choices form, stating you wish to join Partnership at or before our start date. You also have a right to opt out of joining a pension scheme and in doing so you may wish to take advice on the implications of this action including the lack of life cover which would form part of pension scheme membership.

To find out more about the benefits of working here at the Met, please read the Met Benefits document https://www.met.police.uk/car/careers/met/police-staff-roles/police-staff-pay-and-benefits/