Met Police: Recruitment advert unrealistic, critics say

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'Choose a career most people only see on screen' is the strapline of the TV advertisement.

Ken Marsh, head of the federation, said: "If you look at the video, a new serving police officer will not be doing any of those things.

"It's not what's expected of new constables who will be working morning, noon and night doing the most routine work there is and the hardest work there is in policing.The advert's strapline is "choose a career most people only see on screen" Taking into account those who will retire and leave during that time, the force needs to recruit nearly 4,000 officers, which is twice the number it usually would in a year.

A spokesperson for the Met said the scenes were "inherently dramatic" and gave a "realistic flavour" of the different activities officers carried out in their day-to-day jobs.

 

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