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Do Londoners still have faith in the Police?
National World - LocalTV
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27/03/2025
What do Londoners think of the Met.
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Sir Sadiq Khan's policing deputy faced questions on Wednesday over the continually low levels
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of trust and confidence Londoners have in the Metropolitan Police. The criticism comes
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two years after Baroness Casey concluded in a scathing review that the Met was institutionally
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racist, sexist and homophobic. But according to public attitude surveys conducted by the
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Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, trust and confidence in the Met remained far lower
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when Sadiq Khan took office as Mayor in 2016. Confidence in particular is at an all-time
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low with only 46% of Londoners believing the police are doing a good job in their local
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area. This compares with an all-time high of 69% in 2016. At a meeting of the London
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Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, the committee's Tory Chair, Susan Hoare, said
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of Londoners' confidence in the Met Police that she thinks we can all agree it needs
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to be better than it is now. But what do Londoners actually think of the Met Police and do we
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see enough of them on our streets?
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Well, I think seeing them around is not the same as whether they're effective or not.
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And I think I feel okay about them. I don't feel any worse about them. I think there are
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weaknesses, but I don't think there are any. It's got no worse to me.
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I've got to say, I was part of the system, if you like, for over 30 years. I used to
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be in the Britain service. So, you know, I think people have. I don't trust them as much
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as I once did, but fundamentally, I'm supportive of them.
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Well, of course, there used to be policemen walking around. But I don't think that necessarily
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is good policing. You know, it's much more complicated than seeing policemen standing
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about or walking about. It really is.
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I mean, when we were young, buggers were walking up and down, walking up and down the street,
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you know.
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They knew your name.
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Knew your name. Not now. All you see is them flashing by in cars, and that's it.
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Is that something that you'd like to see again? Like, go back to that time? Would that make
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you...
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Oh, flipping hell, yeah. It's only a bit old-fashioned, going back to the time. But in some ways,
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in some aspects, it was better and that were better.
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Yeah, I think it's quite a difficult question because I think it's very hard to determine
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what's done. It's usually done on a case-by-case basis. And I think everybody would just hope
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that their case is, you know, handled with care and that's what the police aim to do.
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So I think it's just very hard to pinpoint what's been done unless you look at the full
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details of the case and then just hope and trust that everybody can do the best thing
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they can to reach a solution to said problem.
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If Bobbies knew your name and they knew where you lived, you don't do anything wrong because
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they'd be roamed at your house.
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