Newsletter, September 2007 |
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Please note that the sciencehorizons programme is described on
a separate
page.
Metropolitan Police consultation on Policing Priorities
This is the fifth year in which we have run the Met’s public
consultation on Policing Priorities and this year the process has
been extended in several ways. We have carried out a completely
new consultation, initially as a pilot, with Safer Neighbourhood
Panels across London. We have developed a discussion guide around
the main issues to help the sessions with Panels and we have used
the results of previous years’ consultations to help participants
to focus in greater depth on the ten issues of most concern to
people.
The reports for both the public consultation and the one with
Safer Neighbourhood Panels will provide insight into the following:
- Which issues were most often selected as priorities
- Why these issues are regarded as most important
- The participants' level of awareness of how the MPS is tackling
these issues
- What additional measures the participants think the MPS should
be taking.
The new consultation with Safer Neighbourhood Panels has generated
a lot of interest, with a participation rate of over 60% and
more than 3,000 Panel members involved. The findings have not yet
been published but, besides covering the questions listed above, we
are also planning to review the consultation from a process design
point of view. As regards providing a ‘framework’ for
a large number of groups, we will look into the question of how to get
the balance right between, on the one hand, imposing the same
standards on all groups so as to be able to compare results, and on
the other hand, allowing them to tailor the process to their own circumstances.