National police promotion framework (NPPF)

Steps to becoming a sergeant or inspector

The NPPF is a four-step promotion process for police officers seeking promotion to the rank of sergeant or inspector.

• Step 1 – achiveing a state of good conduct and experiance within your current rule
• Step 2 – Passing the NPSE or NPIE Exam
• Step 3 – Being Selected out of a Pool of Sargents and Inspectors
• Step 4 – temporary promotion (4 weeks) and a work based assessment leading to a permenet apointment, a return to the pool or removal from the Promotion Prosse going back to Step 1

Once all steps are done the promotion is offical.

Steps 1,Step 2,Step 3 (Pool Placement Only),Step 4 (Partial) are managed by the Collage of Policing

Step 3 (Selection), Step 4 ( Work Based Assesment Part 2A) are managed by the force

A candidet wishing to start this prosses should aproch there Head Of Unit or Line Manager who will then submit an application to COP for the canidet to be chekced against Step 1 and put in for Step 2

Compatancy Requirements Per Rank

This section outlines the Step 1 Requirements for Each rank

The criteria must be kept through the entire NPPF Process

PC->PS

• Completed their probationary period and been at least 2 weeks since end of probation.
• Demonstrated competence in there current rank
• No live written improvement notices issued under the Police (Performance) Regulations 2020 or reduction in rank under those procedures in the previous 12 months, beginning with the date of the notice.
• No live written warning, final written warning or extended final written warning issued
• Adhered to the attendance management policy
• No Active IOPC Investigations

PS->PI

• Completed their probationary period and been at least 2 weeks since end of probation.
• Compleated NPPF Step 4 and haed a signed off work based assesment
• Demonstrated competence in there current rank
• No live written improvement notices issued under the Police Performance Regulations 2020 or reduction in rank under those procedures in the previous 12 months, beginning with the date of the notice.
• No live written warning, final written warning or extended final written warning issued
• Adhered to the attendance management policy
• No Active IOPC Investigations

Chief Inspector,Superintendent,Chief Superintendent

At this rank step 2 and step 3 are skipped as there is no relevent exam for this step. However it is required that at least one of the NPSE or NPIE has been compleated by the candidet

• Completed their probationary period and been at least 2 weeks since end of probation.
• Compleated NPPF Step 4 and haed a signed off work based assesment
• Demonstrated competence in there current rank
• No live written improvement notices issued under the Police Performance Regulations 2020 or reduction in rank under those procedures in the previous 12 months, beginning with the date of the notice.
• No live written warning, final written warning or extended final written warning issued
• Adhered to the attendance management policy
• No Active IOPC Investigations