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Met Police HR department celebrates achievements

14 May 2008 15:07

Metropolitan Police HR director Martin Tiplady has hailed his department's achievements over the past 12 months a success.

He told attendees at a celebratory event earlier this week that the force had increased the diversity of its ground forces, introduced training programmes to improve job performance, and made improvements in leadership following the Morris Inquiry in 2006.

Tiplady said the past year was "one big highlight". "This was probably the best 12 months in the past 12 years," he said. "Tonight's a celebration of the contributions, both internal and external, that have got us to this point."

Referring to the HR transformation programme that will see the Met shed a third of its jobs in 2008, Tiplady added: "We'll be going through a lot of changes over the next year. As long as everyone provides the same quality work as this past year, we'll be fine."

The Met Police was voted 25th in the Times' Top 100 Graduate Employers for 2007, and finished second place in the Pink Paper's Employer of the Year 2008.

Guy Logan

 
 

COMMENTS

What is the achievement?

It may be me, but I am struggling to see what is being celebrated here.


The Met appear to have identified that they were more than 30% over-staffed in HR and have only just realised it. Either that or they are buying some technology that (they hope) will do the job of 300 or so HR people more effectively. In which case, why wait until now?


Shared services have been around so long now that some senior practitioners are starting to question whether they add value or, in the long run - simply add cost.


The only 'achievement' would appear to relate to improvements in 'leadership', which is 'evidenced' by a 'feeling' amongst staff.


A comparable announcement by the finance function would be the loss of a third of staff as a result of the introduction of accounting systems that have also been around for years - oh and staff have a feeling that financial planning has improved.


I cannot understand why such apparent failures are trumpeted by any HR department as some kind of success - Or is it that junior HR (yes, the old admin jobs) are the ones to be hit by 'natural wastage'?


If it were the senior 'strategically focused' HR hierarchy who were seeing their jobs go, I somehow think the celebration would be rather more muted.  


Eric Welburn
16 May 2008
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