Recommendation - Metropolitan Police Service, December 2025
Recommendation date: 17 December 2025
Response due: 11 February 2026
Published: 26 February 2026
Death and serious injury
We identified organisational learning for the Metropolitan Police Service aboutthe Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP). This followedan independent investigation into the force's contact and actions relating to a member of the public before his death. During this incident, a negotiator was contacted to assist. Some of the officers involved appeared to have a dismissive attitude regarding the value a negotiator could bring and they appeared not to follow the advice provided by the negotiator.
Recommendations (1)
Recommendation 1
Accepted
Recommendation
The IOPC recommends that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) should include relevant content on the MPS intranet around the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP), promoting the value of JESIP to recruits and providing links to the relevant material. This … Read more
Force Response
Accepted The MPS accepts the IOPC’s recommendation. MPS Learning and Development will promote the value of JESIP to recruits as part of the new recruit curriculum and ensure any relevant material is made available to them. The new curriculum is … Read more