Hawthorn and Child - Ridgway

"Being the very best we can be"

The world's best companies, organisations, and teams lead because they constantly strive to be the best they can be. They have a vision so it's clear why they do what they do. They have shared values that set out how they work. They have standards of behaviour that describe the values in practice. And people take personal responsibility for how they behave and hold each other to account.

It's a great privilege to provide a police service for London, but 'the job' also comes with some big responsibilities.
To make the scale of our ambition clear, the Met's vision is 'To make London the safest global city.'
Our Met Values are Professionalism, Integrity, Courage, and Compassion. They're what we, through consultation, have judged are most important to us and the special nature and demands of policing London.
But values are much more than just words. To help people understand what they mean in practice, we've developed a simple statement to describe the standards we expect against each one and examples of the positive and negative behaviors you might see.
A Code of Ethics then provides the foundation for the standards and behaviors expected across all police forces in England and Wales.

Date Issued: February 2015
Met HQ - Commercial & Finance