Report Summary
This report summarises the key findings of the evaluation of new policing initiatives in Levenmouth as part of the final phase of the SPA and Police Scotland's Community Confidence Action Research Project in Levenmouth.
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Introduction
This report summarises the findings of the evaluation in Levenmouth 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) Levenmouth was identified as an area for this project. Since February 2023, we have conducted a survey gathering views on confidence in policing in Levenmouth in Winter 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 Summer/early Autumn 2023 local policing in Levenmouth implemented a range of initiatives based on this community feedback. These included increasing community officer engagement, hosting pop up events, supervisors "walking the beat", holding a Quarterly Public Forum, creating a presentation giving an overview of policing, creating community leaflets/newsletter, revising social media approach, and promoting communications via Improving Levenmouth Together (ILT).
To evaluate the initiatives a three-pronged approach has been taken:
- A survey with those 16 and over mirroring one conducted in Feb-Mar 2023;
- Questions with children in local primary schools mirroring questions from February 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 Levenmouth population and should be considered indicative only.
