THIS PAGE WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW AS A PROBATIONARY RESPONSE OFFICER.

Welcome and congratulations on joining ERPT. Do not worry, your trainer will be informative and answer any questions you may have. They were once a police constable and had help from their peers along the way to get to their positions. 

As a Probationary Response Officer, you need to complete Scene Containment Training and ERPT Induction to be promoted from Probationary Response Officer, been a member of ERPT for 5 days, have 0 strikes and have reached 15 hours within ERPT. Uniform and Vehicles that you can use can be found HERE.

Please make it clear that the Hat is mandatory for Probationary Response Officers and that the vehicles must be marked. 

MINIMUM HOURS - 5 PER WEEK

This is the list of Mandatory Trainings:

⁌ ERPT Induction completed by ERPT (Advanced Officers+)

⁌ Basic Pursuit Training completed by RPU (Mentor+) HANDBOOK
⁌ Basic Negotiation Training completed by SCO-19 (OFC)  HANDBOOK
⁌ Communication Training completed by NPAS (Flight Instructors+) HANDBOOK
⁌ Scene Containment Training completed by ERPT (Advanced Officers+) HANDBOOK

When you reach certain ranks within ERPT, you can be trained for the following:

     Senior Response Officer+

⁌ Dog Support Unit Training completed by ERPT (Advanced Officers+) HANDBOOK

⁌ Shotgun Training completed by SCO-19 (OFC) & COP (SE), you must also be a Sergeant within MPS. HANDBOOK

                                                                            Advanced Response Officer+

⁌ Bike Training completed by RPU (Mentor+)  HANDBOOK                  
⁌ Speed Gun Training completed by RPU (Mentor+) HANDBOOK
⁌ Low Speed Tac Contact Training completed by RPU (Mentor+) HANDBOOK

⁌ Drone Training completed by NPAS (Flight Instructor+) HANDBOOK 

⁌ Horse Training completed by ERPT (Specialist Response Team) HANDBOOK
⁌ Custody Sergeant Training completed by ERPT (Specialist Response Team) HANDBOOK

   Specialist Response Team

⁌ High Speed Tac Contact Training completed by RPU (Mentor+) HANDBOOK

Much more to come! Below is Divisonal Information, along with general MPS info.

MPS Ranks, in order:

⁌ Police Constable 

                                                                                    ⁌ Sergeant 

                                                                                    ⁌ Inspector 

                                                                                    ⁌ Chief Inspector 

                                                                                    ⁌ Superintendent 

                                                                                    ⁌ Chief Superintendent

If you have any questions, feel free to read the FAQs below, or DM a member of the command team, Specialist Response Team or an Advanced Officer. We're here to help! You can request training here.

Promotion Guidelines for each rank:

Police Constable --> Sergeant
( 4 weeks minimum as a Police constable, within that time make it clear that want to learn by completing mandatory trainings)

Sergeant --> Inspector 

(5 weeks minimum as a Sergeant, you must demonstrate Leadership and Scene Management and 5 total hours of ridealong).

Inspector --> Chief Inspector

(6 weeks minimum as an Inspector, you must demonstrate excellent leadership skills, scene management, utmost professionalism, great use of police procedures and 10 total hours of ridealong).

 Chief Inspector --> Superintendent/Chief Superintendent

(These ranks are obtainable for silver command members which is obtained by being a command member of a division)

Promotions within the MPS are handed out every Sunday at the MPS Meetings that take place in game at 6:30pm at Vespucci PD, Floor 1. If you don't get promoted on Sunday, but you believe you match the Guidelines for your rank, promotion requests will open and you may apply for a promotion.

Main Divisions

Progression within the Met:

ERPT is the first division you will be a part of. However there are other divisions which specialize in different things which could interest you as an officer. Take a read below about different divisions to see which route you would like to take.

RPU - Roads Policing Unit: 

The Roads Policing Unit is highly trained with pursuits and driving at high speeds. RPU can perform certain manoeuvres, such as PITS, which can be critical in some pursuits where threat to life is high. Officers within this division are trained to high standards in communications over radios and road knowledge. 

Check out RPU-info in the Metropolitan Police Discord for more information on this division.

SCO-19: 

SCO-19 is the most elite division within the Met Police. This division consists of heavily armed officers that are equipped with guns such as Assault Rifles & Snipers Rifles, they are trained to deal with challenging tasks on a daily basis, such as:

                                                       ⁌ Hostage Situations
                                                ⁌ Dealing with heavily armed suspects

                                                       ⁌ Breaching buildings & more

Check out SCO-19-info in the Metropolitan Police Discord for more information on this division

Sub-Divisions:

NPAS - National Police Air Service:

The National Police Air Service provides all police officers with air support. NPAS is always on standby to assist ground units with a wide variety of tasks. This includes searches for suspects and missing persons, vehicle pursuits, public order, counter terrorism and firearms incidents. NPAS have state of the art cameras built in the supplied helicopters to assist with these tasks, these cameras include togglable night vision and heat thermals.

Check out NPAS-info in the Metropolitan Police Discord for more information on this division.

COP - College Of Policing:

The College Of Policing is the division that specializes in the training process of new officers wishing to join the force. This will consist of interviews, training and examination of new officers, then either passing them into the force or failing them.

Check out COP-info in the Metropolitan Police Discord for more information on this division.

Strikes and Punishments Process:

Strikes and punishments can change throughout your MPS career, this is because each division has their own punishments and reasons for punishments. Within ERPT strikes and punishments can lead to certain things such as:

  ⁌ Demotions.
  ⁌ MPS Suspensions
  ⁌ MPS Removals.

Reasons as to why you can get punished within ERPT:

⁌ Wearing incorrect uniform.

⁌ Misuse of police issued equipment.

⁌ Not reaching completion count/doing ridealong hours. (Advanced Officers+)

⁌Not meeting minimum hours a week. (5 for Probationary - Senior Response Officer)

However punishments don't always stay on your record, after a certain amount of time you can appeal the punishment by messaging your Divisional Command/appealing on the home page of the ERPT Hub, or by just clicking this link HERE.