Report Summary
This report summarises the work of the SPA and Police Scotland's Community Confidence Action Research Project in Irvine Fullarton.
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Community Conversations
On 25th May 2023, the SPA and Police Scotland held an engagement session with community groups and members of the public in Fullarton
The day focused on the findings of the Community Confidence Survey and aimed to gain insights on how people felt policing in Fullarton could be enhanced via table and room discussions of the following questions:
- Do you recognise Fullarton in these findings and in what ways?
- Is there anything you feel is missing or would want to add?
- What do you think could enhance confidence in policing in Fullarton?
There were approximately 30 attendees over the day including council officers, locally elected members, community group leaders and members of the public.
This was followed up with direct engagement with community groups in the area and their members asking what they felt impacted confidence in policing and how they felt it could be enhanced.
The key themes for policing that emerged from these conversations were:
- Communication e.g. different approaches to social media, email newsletters or updates, police attendance at meetings, drop in sessions, pop-up stall etc.
- Visibility/Contact e.g. greater visibility of police in the community, on foot or on bikes, visibility outwith incident response etc.
- Targeted resourcing e.g. utilise pre-existing relations/networks, community leaders etc.
- Partnership working e.g. clearer understanding, relationship building with less paper work, promote services and multi-agency preventative work etc.
- Young people e.g. work with young people of all ages (in and outside of school settings), engaging in formative points in life etc.
Those who provided feedback generally found the event valuable and it was great to see police and partners taking on board community feedback to enhance service delivery.
On 26 July 2023 the SPA and Police Scotland held two one-hour sessions to feedback on the initiatives developed in response to the engagement with the community. In total there was about 16 attendees and those who attended were supportive about the ‘Tests of Change’ that had been proposed.
