The Public Confidence Target
Immediate Termination of the Target
Home Secretary Teresa May speaking at the ACPO-APA policing conference in Manchester on 29 June 2010 announced that the public confidence target and the policing pledge will be scrapped with immediate effect.
‘Targets don’t fight crime; targets hinder the fight against crime. In scrapping the confidence target and the policing pledge, I couldn’t be any clearer about your mission: It isn’t a 30-point plan. It is to cut crime. No more, and no less.’
She said she will examine the entire ‘top-down model of accountability imposed on police by central government’; accountability to Whitehall will be replaced by more local control. Therefore, each force should have a directly elected person setting the force budget, agreeing local strategic targets, handling issues of community safety and appointing local chief constables.
Public Confidence Links
This document gives statistics on confidence in police and local councils in dealing with anti-social behaviour and crime in England and Wales.
Public Confidence in the Police
Research analysis from the National Police Improvement Agency.