Organizational Structure and Culture of Metropolitan Police Service

This report provides an analysis of the organizational structure and culture of the Metropolitan Police Service. It begins with an introduction to organizational structures and their importance in achieving enterprise goals, followed by a comparison of the Metropolitan Police's structure to that of the British Transport Police. The report then defines the culture of the Metropolitan Police using Charles Handy's cultural model, identifying it as a role culture. Furthermore, it examines the impact and role of national and local governments in resource allocation, and how this impacts monitoring and accountability processes within the police service. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the interconnectedness of structure, culture, and resource management within the Metropolitan Police.

ORGANISATIONAL
STRUCTURES AND CULTURE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
1. Description on the structure of Metropolitan in comparison with another similar enterprise.
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2. Define the culture of Metropolitan police with use of Handy model. ...................................4
3. Explanation on the impact and role of national government and local government in
resource allocation and access the impact in monitoring and accountability process................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Organisational structure termed out as system that outlines certain activities that are
directed to accomplished enterprise goals (Al-kfairy, Khaddaj, and Mellor, 2019). Thus, it
defined as how power, roles and responsibilities are allotted, controlled and interconnected and
how information flows at differed level of management. This assists enterprise that delegates
hierarchy that define function, responsibility and supervision.
The present report is based on the Metropolitan police service. It is entity that is
responsible for enforcement of law in the Metropolitan police district. Therefore, this enterprise
has significant responsibilities such as co-ordinating and leading of UK wide national counter
terrorism etc.
Henceforth, report will lay emphasise on activities as the structure of Metropolitan police
with similar enterprise as British Transport police UK. Therefore, culture will be analysed with
help of using model as Handy's. Thus impact will be defined with role of national government
and local authorities in resource allocations and access the impact within monitoring and
accountability process.
Main body
1. Description on the structure of Metropolitan in comparison with another similar enterprise.
Law enforcement agency is kind of agency which enforce the law. It may be special,
local and state police (Day, 2019). To operate activities effectively, the police department mus
have highly structured chain of command. It is vary in size from small town departments to the
larger enterprise.
Structure of Metropolitan police-
In this enterprise, there are nearly 42000 officers and staff. However, this is the largest
police service and it has 25% of the total police budget for the England and Wales. Thus, this
entity has considered structure and division of division and skills (UGill, Cormican and
Clohessy, 2019). The main of enterprise is to maintain the all working activities in finely tuned
and cohesive manner.
Thus, structure defined as-
Personnel are divided into various departments of Met as-
 30, 541 police officers

 police staff as 9,044
 public community support officers as 1252
 special officers are as 1826.
Metropolitan business groups as-
 Met operations
 Specialist operations
 Front-line policing
 Professionalism etc.
There are the enterprise that supported by the single Met HQ that offers strategic services
covers by people, change, commercial, media and communication, digital policing and strategy
and governance etc. Henceforth, this enterprise shared support services the provide transactional
services that inclusive of hire to retire, career awards, procurement, finance and reporting and
vetting and referencing etc. By the 1990, the force had
Structure of British Transport police-
The part of the ongoing driver to make the government more accountable and more
transparent than before. Under this, cabinet office is publishing new information about the civil
servants (Ljasenko, Justham and Lohse, 2019). Therefore, it can be stated British police authority
can be termed out as non department public body that is connected to the department for
transport. Henceforth, the structure follows by the British Transport police is as divisional.
Hence, it can be stated that there are 43 forces in England and Wales and one in both the
Scotland and Northern Ireland that used 8 forces separately. Thus, all forces can be differ in size
and it is ranging from 28000 police officers within the British transport police. Thus, there is
almost 700 to 800 is smaller forces. There is no standard organisational structure. British public
transport special constables has identical jurisdiction and powers to regular constables. On the
other hand, primary jurisdiction on any railway in Great Britain. Thus, this has conditional
jurisdiction in any other force area of police (Shaw, 2019).
2. Define the culture of Metropolitan police with use of Handy model.
In every organization it is important to maintain its culture so that employees can work in
effective way. It is the responsibility of management to develop policies and implement it. They
are formed by those who are having power to do so. Any change in it highly impact on working
of employee. Due to this their behavior is affected. It can be stated that organization culture is

highly influenced by certain factors. Handy cultural model state that cultural can be of four types
(WILLMOTT, 2018). It depends on type and nature of organisation. Also, with model it is easy
to analyse behaviour of employees. The cultural types are defied below :-
Power- In this type the authority and power remain only in few people hand. They are having
some special rights which they use in taking decisions. Here, subordinates have to follow those
as they are not having any choice. Most of the decisions are taken by them.
Person – In this type employees are given more privileged in organization. but they do not
remain loyal towards company in the future (UGill, Cormican and Clohessy, 2019). It is not
followed in business as it based on values and interest. A person can highly control or influence
culture.
Task – Here, a group of people who possess same responsibility and authority are given as task
in which they contribute in equal terms. The responsibilities increase with promotion. However,
it is job oriented culture applied in complex situation.
Role- The employees are assigned authority on basis of their roles. These roles differ from
person to person as they possess different skills and abilities. If an employee is assigned many
roles, then he or she is ready to take more responsibility. It enables in building strong
relationship.
In Metropolitan police, it is analysed that culture type is role culture. Here, each police
officer is assigned power as per their role.
3. Explanation on the impact and role of national government and local government in resource
allocation and access the impact in monitoring and accountability process.
Distribution of resources among national and local government is one of the main and
foremost thing’ which is required to be focused on. There are various factors that Are considered
by the government when resource allocation comes into picture. First is that resource allocation
is mostly on revenue account only for maintenance and operations (Day, 2019). All the resources
should be used by core civic services by local bodies like to London metropolitan police. For
resource allocation first of all financial position of local bodies should be assessed only them
resources should be allocated to them. For resource allocation both national and local
government plays a vital role. Resources available for distribution is first of made available to
state government, then accordingly it is divided to local government. There are two vertical and
one horizontal level of resource allocation. At first level resources are allocated to state

government so that they can transfer it to local government. In local government also resource
allocation is done according to rural and urban local government. At second level resource
allocation is done by local government to local civil bodies like London metropolitan police
according to their requirement and area they serve.
And lastly at horizontal level resources are allocated to sub local bodies so that
management and allocation of resources is done in an efficient and better manner. It has been
analysed that there are three different resource allocation models used in Great Britain: one for
England, second for Wales and third for Scotland (Al-kfairy, Khaddaj, and Mellor, 2019). Each
of the models used by England, Wales and Scotland are different from one another. These
models also affect resource application for both local and national government. It has been
observed that these organizations directly or indirectly affect local bodies like Metropolitan
police. As resource and budget allocation based on all the three models is completely different.
In case of London metropolitan police resource allocation does affect them in many ways as
resource allocation for police department should be completely based on the geographical area
they serve and responsibilities that they fulfil. Police department plays a vital role in terms of
fulfilling responsibilities for the geographical area they serve. It is important for both local and
national government to focus on resource allocation done to London police as they are the one
who serve largest area and fulfil their responsibilities in an effective manner.
CONCLUSION
Henceforth, it can be concluded that organisation structure termed out as outlines the
various activities that defines the hierarchy within the organisation. It aids to establish how
enterprise operates to executes the goals. This defines that how information flows within
enterprise at the differ level of management.
The present report is based on business activities of organisation structure and culture of
Metropolitan business activities. Henceforth, report has covered activities as to undertaken the
comparison between two similar kind of enterprise as Metropolitan and British public transport.
However, report has covered the culture of quoted enterprise with use of Handy model. Lastly,
assignment has covered activities as to define the impact of role of national and local authorities
on resource allocation.

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