MPA congratulates Director of Human Resources for national award

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19 November 2004

Rachel Whittaker, Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority Human Resources Committee, today congratulated Martin Tiplady, Director of Human Resources, Metropolitan Police Service, on winning the Jaegar-LeCoultre Telegraph’s Personnel Director of the Year award.

She said:

“The MPA sends its warmest congratulations to Martin Tiplady, the only recipient from the public sector to win this prestigious award this year.

“In the last few years the Metropolitan Police Service has made great leaps forward as an employer. The Human Resources Directorate has been integral to putting in place policies to help build a police service fit for the 21st century.

“As the largest employer in London the MPA and the MPS have been working hard to make sure that our police service becomes more representative of the diverse communities it serves. Growth in recruitment has been phenomenal and currently the number of officers in the MPS is at an all time peak at 30,624 officers. The MPS was also the first police service to introduce Community Police Support Officers in response to Londoners’ wanting to see more uniformed officers on our streets.

“The Human Resources Directorate has been working with other departments to improve conditions and infrastructure for all our staff. For example, state of the art police stations have been built under PFI schemes in both Sutton and Lewisham, pay for police staff has increased and family friendly policies introduced.

“Under Martin’s leadership the department has helped to introduce aspects of the Police Reform Act that will build a police service that Londoners tell us they want.”

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