Report Summary
This report summarises the key findings of the evaluation of new policing initiatives in Letham as part of the final phase of the SPA and Police Scotland's Community Confidence Action Research Project in Letham.
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Introduction
This report summarises the findings of the evaluation in Letham as part of the Scottish Police Authority and Police Scotland Community Confidence Action Research Project.
Using a range of data (such as Scottish Government statistics) Letham was identified as an area for this project. Since August 2022, we have conducted a survey gathering views on confidence in policing in Letham in Autumn and held a number of events over Spring 2023 to gather ideas on how confidence in policing could be enhanced in the local area.
In Spring/early Summer 2023 local policing in Perth and Kinross implemented a range of initiatives based on this community feedback. These included introducing named community officers, hosting pop up events, developing links with local organisations, promoting the Police Scotland Youth Volunteers, and creating a presentation giving an overview of policing.
To evaluate the initiatives a three-pronged approach has been taken:
A survey with those 16 and over mirroring one conducted in Sept-Nov 2022;
Questions with children in a local primary school mirroring questions from January 2023; and
Conversations with community representatives
It should be noted that due to small sample sizes and the non-representative nature of the samples the findings of this survey cannot be generalised to the entire Letham population and should be considered indicative only.
