Structure
With more than 43,000 officers and staff, the Met is the UK's largest police service. It currently has 25% of the total police budget for England and Wales. We take a lot of care in structuring the organisation to make full use of many different disciplines and skills of our people.
The structure of the Met
Here’s how our personnel are divided up within the various departments of the Met:
- 34,350 Police officers
- 10,253 Police staff
- 1,196 Police community support officers
- 1,589 Special officers
(as of 28 February 2023)
The Met comprises four business groups:
- Frontline Policing
- Specialist Operations
- Met Operations
- Professionalism
These are supported by a single Met HQ that provides strategic services covering People and Change, Commercial and Finance, Legal, Media and Communications, Strategy and Governance and Digital Policing.
Shared Support Services then provide transactional and support services including finance and reporting, hire to retire, career transition/awards, procurement, referencing and vetting.