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Police: How can the police improve their image in Britain?
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08/01/2025
New figures have shown that almost half of Britons have no confidence that police will turn up to reports of burglary or car theft.
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Steve, thank you for joining us. What factors do you believe have contributed to a decline
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in trust in the British police?
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Well, when we talk about trust, it's this idea that we can look up to public establishments
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and I think the police have suffered from the decline in the belief that public establishments
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and organisations work in the best interest of the public. The police quite clearly have
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had their own issues in recent years. We see less of them, or fewer of them, if I have
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the correct English. We don't have community police officers in the way we once did, people
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we can go and talk to, and quite often they tend to come in when there's a crisis and
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it's mob-handed. But also, there is the general perception that the police do not operate
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in the way they once did, that trivial crimes are somehow less important. If it's a burglary,
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they don't come out, car crime. But they do focus on things which seem to be irrelevant
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to people's lives, such as sending errant texts or WhatsApp messages or whatever it
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might be. Therefore, of course, there is this difficulty that people want to have police
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that they can believe will create a general aura of safe streets and safer homes. Of course,
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a lot of this is led by the belief that things have got much unsafer, which is not always
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necessarily true. The statistics tell us that, in many cases, we're as safe as we've
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ever been. But of course, we hear a lot more about murders and terrible crimes.
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So what role do you think political leadership plays in addressing people's lack of trust
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within the police?
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The danger we don't want to drift into is a paramilitary police force to deal with the
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bigger issues. We need to have more police officers walking the beat. The so-called Bobby
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the oldest of the day, who would issue warnings and perhaps not be so encumbered by the bureaucracy,
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which of course makes the life of a modern-day police officer such a curse.
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