Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with an overview of the findings from the latest round of public polling, carried out during January 2024 by the Diffley Partnership on behalf of the Authority. The paper also describes the next steps regarding polling and a move to incorporate qualitative research into the analytic approach in 2024-25.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 12 March 2024
Date : 12 March 2024
Location : online
Trust and Confidence in Public Institutions
For this particular round of public polling, and in response to a request from the Committee, questions have been asked to establish the relative level of trust and confidence in policing compared with other public institutions.
Trust and confidence is higher for the two other main emergency services, namely the Fire and Rescue Service and the Ambulance Service, although we must recognise that the remit of the police service extends considerably beyond acting as an emergency service.
There is a greater similarity between trust and confidence in the police service and in the NHS, although the level is lower for the police service.
In relation to local and national government, confidence and trust in the police is significantly higher. Additionally, falls in confidence and trust in the police service in the last six months are less pronounced than the falls affecting local councils and the Scottish Government.
