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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Trust in Policing
Figure 5 shows that the highest proportion of respondents across all categories scored ‘low’. This is lower than Sept-Nov 2022 where the highest proportion scored ‘medium’. However, for all except ‘to care about people like you’, the second most common response was ‘high’ – when ‘high’ was the least common response in Sept-Nov 2022 for all indicators except ‘In general’. A similar downward trend in feelings of trust in policing has been documented in the SPA national polling between July 2022 and 2023.
However, Figure 6 shows a higher proportion of those who were aware of at least one of the initiatives scored ‘high’ for all indicators. This is in comparison to those who were not aware of any initiative scoring ‘low’ across all indicators – see Figure 7.
Again, while it is not possible to tell if these factors are linked due to small sample sizes, it does suggest that awareness of initiatives could be linked to increased trust in policing.
