Overview
- About 175 central command employees, including call handlers, fleet services and technicians, will walk out from 6am on 31 December for 25 hours.
- Unite warns the action could slow emergency call handling and the dispatch of police vehicles during one of London’s busiest nights.
- The union says these staff received no 2025/26 increase while Met officers were awarded a 4.2% rise.
- The Met has tabled offers of 3.8% or 4.2%, with the higher rate contingent on changes to terms and conditions that the union rejects.
- The Met says most staff will work as usual and it does not anticipate service changes, while Unite also campaigns against proposed front-desk closures that it says could cut around 100 jobs.