What is Trust and Confidence in the Police

摘要: One of the first actions new Home Secretary was to scrap public confidence as single performance indicator policing in England and Wales. Yet trust will remain important policy practice. Trust can (a) encourage active citizen participation priority setting running local services, (b) make bodies more locally accountable responsive, (c) secure cooperation with police compliance law. Analysing survey data from London, we find that overall ‘public confidence’ condenses a range complex inter-related judgements concerning trustworthiness police. We argue summarizes motive-based is rooted social alignment between community. This founded upon assessments ability be ‘civic guardian’ who secures respect embodies community values (Loader Mulcahy, 2003). By demonstrating their public, strengthen connection citizens thus civic engagement domains security policing.