Met Police (PCS) Strike Calendar

Approximately 6,500 civilian staff at the Metropolitan Police plan to strike starting January 15th due to a dispute over the non-receipt of a London cost-of-living allowance.

Over 130 members at the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) will strike from January 12th to 15th over what is considered a real-terms pay reduction.

Prior industrial action by the union recently reversed a decision to close police station front counters.

Met Police civilian staff seek the same fully consolidated £1,250 London allowance afforded to their officer counterparts.

A previous strike day reportedly incurred significant staffing cover costs for the Metropolitan Police.

MOPAC members supported strike action with a large majority after rejecting two separate pay increase offers which were below inflation.

Both striking groups are scheduled to hold a demonstration on January 15th outside City Hall during the Mayor's Question Time session.

PCS members working for the Met Police are campaigning against the pulling of an agreed blended working framework and its replacement with an imposed policy which mandates at least 60% a week in an office workplace. PCS Met Police members in referencing and vetting took two weeks of strike action in February 2025, which caused backlogs for the employer, who had to use police officers to do the work. The current strike action is by 359 members working in Met Intelligence, who provide analytical reports of where crime is being reported so resources can be strategically deployed.

To deal with the impact of the strike this week, the Met has set up special 'gold units' and is using vast amounts of taxpayers' money to pay for police officers to work overtime to cover the work; this when the Met is already facing a £450 million debt/budget shortfall.

Civilian staff working for the Metropolitan Police will take two weeks of strike action after management threatened to dock their wages if they took action short of a strike.

PCS members had voted to take action short of a strike in the form of non-compliance with the new attendance policy on which the dispute is based. However management threatened to deduct a full day’s pay for any day on which a member of staff worked from home when they had been instructed to attend the office.