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This accessibility statement applies to www.met.police.uk
This website is run by the Single Online Home (SOH) platform and uses national templates. The content is a mix of national and local.
National content is managed by the SOH team, local content is managed by the individual forces. Responsibility for the accessibility compliance of the national content sits with the SOH team; individual forces are responsible for the accessibility compliance of their local content.
We want everyone to be able to use this website. You might have a better experience if you change the settings on your computer to suit your needs. The site has been built so that you should be able to:
We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use.
We know some parts of this website aren’t fully accessible.
The data visualisation tools used in our Crime Statistics and Data dashboards are not accessible by screen readers, screen recognition software and other assistive technology. They do not display well on smaller screens including mobiles and tablets however we have provided access to alternative formats.
On search results pages the purpose of some of the links may not be clear to screen reader users.
Some of the link text on the Your Area pages is not underlined and is only distinguished by the use of colour.
Most older PDF documents aren’t fully accessible to screen readers. However, users can request accessible versions. The optional downloadable PDFs created after users complete any of our forms also aren't yet fully accessible for screen readers.
Some content on our website is not available unless JavaScript is enabled, for example forms, find a police station and maps.
It isn’t possible to resize the text in the Live Chat area, and the survey that sometimes appears at the end of the chat may be difficult to use with keyboard navigation.
If you can't access something you need on this site, please tell us about it and we will get you what you need in another way.
To help us understand the problem as quickly as we can, please tell us:
Online using our accessibility contact form.
By email: [email protected]
Please note: this mailbox is only for accessibility enquiries. It you want to report crimes or other incidents, use our online crime reporting services. If a crime is happening now or someone is in immediate danger, call 999.
If you have a hearing or speech impairment, use our textphone service 18000 or text us on 999 if you’ve pre-registered with the emergencySMS service.
If you'd like to contact us about something else, and you need a response, please use our contact page.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
The Metropolitan Police is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.
Find out more about the technical accessibility standards we follow.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
Some of the links in the Your Area pages are not underlined and use colour alone to distinguish them. This doesn’t meet criterion 1.4.1 Use of colour (Level A).
The purpose of the page number links in the pagination on Search Results pages may not be clear from reading the link text alone or by reading the link text with programmatically associated link context. This doesn’t meet criterion 2.4.4 Link purpose (in context) (Level A).
It isn’t possible to resize the text in the Live Chat area. This doesn’t meet criterion 1.4.4 Resize text (Level AA).
We aim to fix these issues by the end of December 2024, unless otherwise specified.
There are a number of WCAG 2.1 AA non compliances within the data visualisations used in the Stats and Data dashboards including:
Accessible versions of all our stats can be downloaded from the London datastore.
PDFs may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. We are in the process of replacing or fixing any PDF and Word documents which are essential to our services, however users can request accessible versions.
With a few exceptions, all new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards. All new documents that aren’t accessible will be clearly identified, and we will provide an accessible version wherever possible.
After users complete some of our forms they are given the option to download a copy of their data in PDF format. We know that these PDFs are not currently fully accessible to screen readers. Building accessible PDFs is part of our future development plans and is being reviewed.
Many of our older PDFs and Word documents are not fully accessible, for example, they may not be easy to read using a screen reader.
We aim to have replaced or fixed any PDF and Word documents which are essential to our services, like forms published as Word documents.
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. For example, we don’t plan to fix every older non-essential document like old campaign PDFs.
This website was last tested using:
We continually monitor and test the accessibility of our site and have made fixing and improving the accessibility of the site part of our daily work.
This statement was prepared on 20 September 2019. It was last reviewed on 28 August 2024.
A full external audit was carried out on this website in May 2019, and a more limited Government Digital Service audit was run in October 2022.
We tested the service based on a user's ability to complete key journeys. All parts of the chosen journeys were tested, including documents. Journeys were chosen on a number of factors including usage statistics, risk assessments and subject matter.