5. Register your interest

If you’d like to join as a DC please share your details in our talent bank and we’ll be in touch when our entry route re-open.

Alternatively you can find out about joining us as a police constable in uniform. You can join sooner and gain valuable experience in core policing functions and initial investigations during your two year probation. After this if you would still like to be a DC you can then take the National Investigators’ Exam and apply to join the Met’s internal Trainee Detective Constable programme. This programme will use your existing policing knowledge and experience to develop your investigations into serious and complex crimes.

Disability Confident employer

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups, and women.

As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. The core rationale for the JRFT is to ensure that prospective police officers have a minimum level of fitness to be able to undertake Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST) training. Find out more about police fitness standards.

Read our full disability confidence statement.

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