Local Confidence Surveys
The Government has set a demanding target on the police service to increase, to 60% by 2012, the proportion of people who agree that:
“the police and local council are dealing with the anti-social behaviour and crime issues that matter in this area”
Public confidence in the police and other local agencies is key if crime and anti-social behaviour are to be tackled effectively and the public made to feel safer.
South Wales Police has embarked on a rolling survey programme, utilising its Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), to visit randomly selected addresses and conduct face to face surveys on policing and crime & anti-social behaviour in the local area.
The graph below shows the percentage of people who agreed with the aforementioned statement by local authority area:
The results refer to a combination of a postal exercise undertaken at the end of 2009 and face to face surveys conducted in February 2010, which is now the standard methodology for the Force. Results are based on 600 surveys per local authority area.
We asked, you said, we did
To find out how South Wales Police are working with their partners to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour where you live:
- visit www.ourbobby.com and enter your postcode into “Find your local contact” - on your ward page you can find out about your local officer, the current priorities set by your community and the action being taken to deal with them.
- read your ward level newsletter that tells you about local performance, meetings and initiatives.