Met Police Exam case studies
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The Metropolitan Police entrance assessment is the selection stage used by London's Metropolitan Police Service to decide whether applicants move forward to interview and pre-employment checks. It is aimed at people seeking to become police constables, including new recruits and, where routes allow, transferees and specials. The assessment is designed to test whether you can think like an officer rather than simply recall facts. It typically combines situational judgement, where you choose the most and least effective response to a policing scenario, with numerical reasoning based on tables and short data sets, verbal reasoning over dense written passages, written communication tasks such as drafting a statement or report, and elements of logical problem solving and checking accuracy under time pressure. The Met Police Exam case studies are 5 cases and about 3,635 words.
1The Weak-Grounds Stop
You are a uniformed constable on a busy Friday night in an inner-London borough. At 23:40 your colleague PC Hale radios that he is stopping a 19-year-old man on a quiet residential street because the man "looked nervous and walked away." Hale asks you to attend as cover and to support the stop.
759 words, about 4 min2Burglary Tasking Brief
You are a performance analyst in a borough command unit. The monthly tasking meeting is tomorrow.
614 words, about 3 min3The Witness Who Was Not Sure
You are reviewing a witness statement in an assault case. I saw two men arguing outside the kebab shop.
750 words, about 4 min4The Missing Girl Report
You are a response officer completing a report after a 14-year-old girl, Mia, was reported missing from her home in Harrow and returned six hours later. Her mother says Mia left at 16:10 after an argument about a boyfriend and did not answer her phone.
706 words, about 4 min5The Pharmacy File Review
You are reviewing a burglary case file before it goes to the Crown Prosecution Service. The defendant, Mr Okafor, is alleged to have stolen a till from a pharmacy at 02:10 on 14 March.
806 words, about 4 min