Release: Crime Statistics - Focus on Public Perceptions of Policing, Findings from the 2011/12 Crime Survey for England and Wales

Just under two-thirds of adults (62 per cent) thought the police in their local area were doing a good or excellent job.

Over half of all adults (55 per cent) reported that they see the police or Police and Community Support Officers (PCSOs) on foot patrol in their local area at least every month, based on 2011/12 interviews, while one in five (19 per cent) reported seeing them less than once a month and one in four (26 per cent) reported never seeing them.

Levels of police visibility increased between the 2006/07 and 2009/10 surveys but have remained stable in the last two years.

Adults who reported seeing the police once a week or more were more likely than others to think their local police were doing a good or excellent job.

There was a similar level of awareness (43 per cent) of Neighbourhood Policing teams as the previous year, following an increase in awareness between the 2009/10 and 2010/11 surveys.

Three per cent of adults had attended a local police beat meeting in the last year.

Around a third of adults (32 per cent) were aware of local online crime maps and 11 per cent had looked at or used them in the last 12 months.

Around one in seven households (14 per cent) were currently a member of a Neighbourhood Watch scheme; a similar proportion to the previous year but down from 17 per cent in 2004/05.