There will be further disruption to London Metropolitan Police services later this month as workers will walk out for several days in an ongoing pay dispute.

The 175 Unite members involved in the dispute work as call centre staff for Met CC and the force’s fleet as vehicle technicians and office staff servicing and dispatching vehicles such as police cars and motorbikes.

These workers have been offered an inferior pay rise for 2025/26, despite Met police officers being given a 4.2 per cent pay rise in September 2025. All other constabularies across the UK have given both police officers and police staff the 4.2 per cent increase without detriment.

The Met's Unite members have since rejected two provisional offers - either a below-RPI pay increase of 3.8 per cent or a 4.2 per cent offer, which is conditional on workers relinquishing their current terms and conditions.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "It is completely wrong that our members at the Met are the only police staff in the UK that have not had a pay rise.

"It is immoral to tell them that in order to get the same pay increase as their counterparts elsewhere they will be expected to accept worse conditions. Unite will not stand for this and will continue to fully support workers at the Met throughout this dispute."

The latest wave of strikes will take place from 19 to 24 January. The first strike, on New Year's Eve, caused major disruption including delays in call outs due to the lack of both unmarked and marked police cars and motorcycles with fleet staff walking out.

Unite regional officer Keith Henderson said: "The hugely successful and disruptive first strike showed just how vital these workers are to the Met Police and that they deserve to be paid fairly.

"The force will hugely struggle to cope with several days' worth of action, but the Met must revise its pay offer to one acceptable to our members to prevent this from happening."

As well as the dispute around pay, Unite is also fighting plans by the Met to close 10 of the 34 police front desks in the capital. Currently, the Met's aim is to keep just two of them operating 24 hours a day and the rest on reduced hours.

Unite believes this will increase crime levels as it will give the general public fewer options for reporting incidents, while almost 100 members of staff could lose their jobs as a result.

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