Metropolitan Police Service
His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMI): Lee Freeman is HMI for the Metropolitan Police Service.
This force is in the National HMICFRS policing region.
HMICFRS’s assessment of the Metropolitan Police Service
Our PEEL (police effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy), and other force assessments give you information about how your local police force has performed in several important areas.
In our latest assessments of the Metropolitan Police Service, we made the following judgments:
Read our other reports for the Metropolitan Police Service
- The Metropolitan Police Service’s handling of the sexual and criminal exploitation of children: Causes of concern – revisit – February 2025
- The Metropolitan Police Service’s handling of the sexual and criminal exploitation of children – February 2024
- An inspection of the Metropolitan Police Service’s counter-corruption arrangements and other matters related to the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel – March 2022
News related to the Metropolitan Police Service.
Recent news
- PEEL assessment framework (PAF) 2025–2027
- Forces must improve the effectiveness of crime investigations and achieve better outcomes for victims
- Joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk in Bromley
- Metropolitan Police Service improves its handling of child exploitation, but further changes are needed
- Metropolitan Police Service removed from enhanced monitoring
Publications related to the Metropolitan Police Service.
Recent publications
- PEEL assessment framework (PAF) 2025–2027
- An inspection into how effectively the police investigate crime
- Joint targeted area inspection of the multi-agency response to identification of initial need and risk in Bromley
- The Metropolitan Police Service’s handling of the sexual and criminal exploitation of children: Causes of concern – revisit
- Metropolitan Police Service: return to default phase of monitoring
Key facts – 2019/20
Force Area
Population
Workforce
Victim-based crimes
Cost
These are the latest key facts about the Metropolitan Police Service.
About the force
The Metropolitan Police Service provides policing services to Greater London. The police force area covers 607 square miles in the south east of England.
Although there are areas of acute deprivation within the force area there are also areas of extreme affluence.
Around 8.7 million people live in a predominantly urban setting. The force covers the urban conurbation of Greater London, including the City of Westminster. The resident population is ethnically very diverse, with 40 percent from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, and is increased by a very large number of university students and the very large numbers who visit, socialise in, commute into or travel through the area each year.
The transport infrastructure includes major rail stations, public transport hubs and major airports.
More about this area – What the Metropolitan Police Service says