{"id":4005,"date":"2018-01-25T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2018-01-25T17:38:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T17:38:41","slug":"half-of-public-have-not-seen-bobby-on-the-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=4005","title":{"rendered":"Half of public have not seen Bobby on the beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\np.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545}\np.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545; min-height: 14.0px}\np.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #e4af09}\nspan.s1 {color: #454545}\nspan.s2 {text-decoration: underline ; color: #e4af09}\n--><\/style>\n<p>NEARLY half the public in England and Wales have not seen a Bobby on the beat in the past 12 months and sightings have fallen by a quarter in two years.<\/p>\n<p>Four-fifths of those surveyed for the Inspector of Constabulary said a regular uniformed police presence was important, but fewer than one-in-five thought they had one in their neighbourhood.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proportion who had not seen a uniformed officer in their area rose to 44%, up from 41% in 2016 and 36% in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage saying they had not seen uniformed personnel in a vehicle in the past year was lower, at 12%.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come after police chiefs have said they are struggling with steep funding cuts from central Government.<\/p>\n<p>A report detailing the findings of the survey of 12,662 people carried out for HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &amp; Rescue Services noted that public feelings around police visibility &#8220;can be strong and have a significant bearing on broader attitudes to policing and local safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said: &#8220;Regular local uniformed police presence remains important for participants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, as in previous years, the proportion who are satisfied with the level of local uniformed police presence is far lower than the proportion who are dissatisfied (24% vs 41%).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The inspectorate has previously raised concerns over the impacts of an &#8220;erosion&#8221; of neighbourhood policing.<\/p>\n<p>The research also found a marked increase in confidence in the police to provide protection during a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>Over half (55%) said that they would be &#8220;very&#8221; or &#8220;fairly&#8221; confident in police dealing with such an incident, compared with 46% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The increase probably reflected a shift in public perception after the police response to 2017 terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, just over half were satisfied with the police \u2013 similar to last year when the percentage was 52%.<\/p>\n<p>See more in the Telegraph here\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/12\/28\/half-public-did-not-see-bobby-beat-past-year\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/12\/28\/half-public-did-not-see-bobby-beat-past-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEARLY half the public in England and Wales have not seen a Bobby on the beat in the past 12 months and sightings have fallen by a quarter in two\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=4005\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4005\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}