Blue light

Our team combines market-leading legal expertise with deep sector knowledge gained through years of working alongside police forces and emergency services organisations, including secondments and support on nationally significant programmes, operational matters and complex transformation projects.

Combined with our role as a leading adviser to central government and the wider public sector, this gives us a unique perspective on the policy, funding and regulatory environment shaping the future of policing and emergency services.

Working at the intersection of government policy and front-line delivery, we understand the legal, operational, budgetary and reputational challenges facing the sector. This enables us to provide practical, forward-looking advice that helps clients manage risk, respond to change and maintain public confidence, while preparing for emerging priorities, reforms and legislative developments.

As a longstanding provider on the National Legal Services Framework (NLSF) and other major public sector panels, we've worked with dozens of police forces and emergency services organisations, on matters that directly impact operational effectiveness, organisational resilience and public trust. We are appointed to six NLSF lots spanning complex through to business-as-usual commercial legal support, employment, misconduct, property, and public inquiries.

Working as an extension of our clients' teams, we bring together specialists from across the firm to deliver coordinated, value-focused legal advice that helps blue light organisations navigate complexity, deliver change and serve their communities with confidence.

Clients include

• Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, Metropolitan Police Service
• 7 Force Procurement Function
• Greater Manchester Police
• Police Scotland
• West Midlands Police
• Kent & Essex Police
• Avon & Somerset Police
• West Yorkshire Police
• South Yorkshire Police

Public sector panel appointments

We are appointed to most key public sector legal panels, including the National Legal Services Framework and Government Commercial Agency frameworks for both central government and the wider public sector.

See here for full details of the public sector panels we sit on.

Experience

7 Force Procurement Function:

TLT supports the 7 Force Procurement Function on procurement, commercial and governance matters, helping seven police forces collaborate effectively, achieve value for money and deliver compliant procurement solutions. Our work spans strategic procurements, commercial contracts and complex collaborative arrangements that support the delivery of policing services across the region.

Supporting one of the UK's largest policing organisations - Met Police:

TLT advises the Metropolitan Police Service across a broad range of legal matters, drawing on expertise from across our commercial, public law, employment, real estate and technology teams. Our work has included support on complex commercial and procurement matters, governance issues and strategic programmes that help underpin the delivery of policing services in London.