Recruitment & Selection
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Introduction This is a report that covers recruitment planning, recruitment practices, recruitment procedures, selection practice & recruitment and selection legislation on my chosen business, the Metropolitan Police Service. The Metropolitan Police was established on 29 September 1829 by then Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel. The Met, as it is called colloquially, was London's first organised police service, charged with maintaining law and order in the capital city. When it started, there were just 1,000 officers, policing less than 2 million people across a seven-mile radius around Charing Cross. It was the third official non-paramilitary city police force in the world, after the City of Glasgow Police and the Paris Police. Until the middle of the 18th century, no police force operated in London. One of the priorities of the police force from the beginning was "maintaining public order", and they were very active, for example, against the major Chartist demonstrations. The...


