Report Summary
This report provides members of the Scottish Police Authority Policing Performance Committee with an overview of three pieces of polling and analytical work undertaken during the summer of 2024.
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Meeting
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Policing Performance Committee - 18 September 2024
Date : 18 September 2024
Location : online
Deeper Dive Series II: Rural and Remote Scotland
This report (Appendix 2) is the second deeper dive analysis, looking more closely at the role played by rurality and remoteness in influencing public perceptions about policing.
This second deeper dive uses the same aggregated sample of 10,562 people over four waves of polling as the first deeper dive (which looked at gender and reported to the Policing Performance Committee in June 2024).
The emphasis in the report is on the views of 2,320 people living in rural and/or remote parts of Scotland, how these differ from the rest of population, and how much variation there is within the rural and/or remote population of the country.
The following key findings are expanded upon within the main report (see Appendix 2):
People living in rural and/or remote areas of Scotland generally have higher levels of trust and confidence in the police, and rate police performance more positively, compared with the rest of Scotland.
Views towards the police tend to be more positive in relation to a number of policing matters in the largely rural and remote areas of Scotland, principally Highland and Island, North East Scotland, and South Scotland.
Whilst there is less confidence in the police and more negative ratings of performance for tackling antisocial behaviour than most other aspects of policing, the view among people living in more rural and remote areas of Scotland is clearly more positive than people who live in the rest of Scotland, especially in Highland and Island.
