CITY OF LONDON POLICE Employee Reviews

Good organisation to work for - work life balance, innovative and global. Healthy workplace culture, funded units, supportive management nice colleagues.

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Terrible management

Fraud Operations Team Detective Constable (Former Employee) - Detective - 9 February 2023

Would be a great place to work if not for awful management who are willing to use their staff as 'examples' in their career progression with no thought for that person's welfare

Pros

Working in London

Cons

Awful management

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Insights into CITY OF LONDON POLICE

Based on 9 survey responses

What people like

Clear sense of purpose
Ability to learn new things
Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Time and location flexibility

High Stress

Fraud Advisor (Former Employee) - Gourock, Inverclyde - 8 August 2022

I worked on the Action Fraud campaign for a little under 2 years. Management was very good to start, then management was replaced with significantly younger and inexperienced staff, which led to horrible management and inevitable decline of the campaign. Front line staff could clearly see the issue, but any and all feedback was ignored.

Pros

Helping people.

Cons

A masterclass on how to ruin a campaign in less than 2 years.

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It was a high pressure site with a few access challenges as some areas were out of bounds.

Site Manager/Construction Manager Paragon (Former Employee) - City of London, Greater London - 27 April 2022

I was working for Interserve/Paragon unfortunately I didn’t complete the job as I had to leave for an operation for bowel cancer about 5 months in but I was happy with the team, very supportive.

Pros

Good working environment

Cons

Parking was abysmal

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Nice place to learn & work

Police Sergeant Acting/Temporary Inspector (Former Employee) - City of London, Greater London - 16 May 2019

I do not want to add a review at the moment thank you. I have to much else to do thank you. So why are asking me to complete this and put words in this box

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Good place to work

Administrator (Current Employee) - London - 6 November 2018

Reasonable work load with good management. Other roles include assisting with setting up the probationers training by doing role plays and setting up there pass out parade ceremony. I was also a part of the TAS user testing before it was rolled out to the rest of the force.

Pros

Flexible hours

Cons

Building not nice

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Busy and challenging environment

Fleet Administration Officer (Current Employee) - COLP, UK - 18 September 2018

I work in a very busy and challenging environment but the work is rewarding. Every day is different. It feels good to know that I'm contributing to a safer neighbourhood.

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Fun and professional

Intelligence Researcher (Current Employee) - London - 3 June 2018

Fun and very interesting place to work, helping bring criminals to justice. Training is provided and additional courses to improve performance is encouraged.

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Best UK Police Force

Detective Constable (Former Employee) - City of London, Greater London - 11 February 2018

Exciting and challenging work. Opportunity to investigate and manage own case loads. Opportunity to develop new approaches to investigating economic crime.

Pros

location

Cons

Getting there

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Great organisation

Senior Business Analyst (Current Employee) - London - 28 December 2017

Learnt a lot and any ideas will be accommodated. It was a good place to work and the Management team were very helpful. I would definitely work here again should the offer arise.

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Productive place with great scope to learn

Trainee (Former Employee) - London, United Kingdom - 26 August 2017

Hard work and determination can do wonders. Very encouraging and friendly environment where everyone helps you learn and grow as an individual and as a scientist.

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Not as good as they think they are....

Constable (Current Employee) - City of London, Greater London - 23 August 2017

The force has a lot of very good investigators, and has delivered some good results. However too much is traded off a reputation which has slipped in recent years. Budget cuts, and poor management decisions continue to hamper the skilled staff from delivering greater results. The UK criminal justice system is effectively breaking down when it comes to managing big cases, and many economic crime cases here become drawn out over many years. This results in officers getting either jaded or gradually becoming deskilled. A continuing series of restructures promises much but delivers little other than an effect of a continuous spam of management reports. Technology is always behind the curve. The force benefits from not being the Metropolitan Police, and not facing the devastating cuts experienced by county forces. There is less pressure and politics from external parties. However internal politics can be both petty and grinding the higher up one might rise. Too many managers at senior level pose and compete and deliver nothing for the workforce. The general workforce are really friendly and many are very skilled at their roles. Opportunities abound to leave policing for a more lucrative career elsewhere.

Pros

More time than most other police agencies, good for moving to better opportunities elsewhere

Cons

Poorly managed and too much internal politics

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Experience

Police Officer (Former Employee) - London - 12 August 2017

This company allowed me to gain a wide look into the different departments involved within the police. It was fun and interesting to see what goes on behind the scenes as well as more hands on things.

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Not appropriate due to job role

Programme Manager (Former Employee) - Guildhall - 10 July 2017

I can't really write a proper review due to the nature of the work undertaken however it is an interesting and definitely challenging environment to which I would return

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Manage your expectations

Detective Constable / Financial Investigator (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 18 June 2017

Officers will know their job is the same wherever you go. However, its a nice area to work. Huge amounts of red tape to get anything done. Good office environment. I don't know what else to say.

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World class organization

International Liaison Officer (Current Employee) - City of London, Greater London - 13 May 2017

The City of London Police is a world class organization of professional law enforcement officers. They are the national lead force on fraud for the United Kingdom.

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Improvements are being addressed.

Fraud / Financial Investigator (Current Employee) - London - 19 June 2016

The most enjoyable part of working here is the strength and support you will receive from colleagues.The City are trying their best to remain contemporary and future proof with investment in accommodation and infrastructure.

Pros

Camaraderie

Cons

Duty changes at short notice

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Nice place to work in.

Hardware Audit Engineer (Former Employee) - London, ENG - 3 February 2016

Its a nice place to work, didn't get much learning experience due to the nature of the role but had thoroughly enjoyed it. Had they asked me to stay on doing other work, I would have said yes.

Pros

Free lunch

Cons

None

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Good people

Enterprise Strategy and Solutions Architect (Current Employee) - Guildhall - 25 January 2016

Interesting place to work, lots of history and very you meet very interesting people every day. Working with the police come with interesting challenges around security.

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Facilites Manager

Deputy Facilites Manager (Former Employee) - London, ENG - 15 October 2015

A typical day you never knew what was coming one day could be full on another day would be totally different full of ups and downs but a lot of laughs along the way this is what made this a different job from anything else I have ever done. myself and my team would grow and develop always getting through the red tape and politics that paid a big role in this job and there was always a variety of challenges.

Cons

long hours covering shifts

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excellent

Customer Service Advisor/Administrator (Current Employee) - Gourock, SCT - 17 September 2015

Excellent place to work, management team are very friendly and understanding, always there to help. Every member of my team are fantastic people and so easy to work with. Job itself can be extremely stressful but that's all part of the fun/learning curve. Unfortunately this is only a temporary contract.

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