West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Mark Burns-Williamson is inviting residents across the county to keep the ‘community conversation’ going during the COVID pandemic with the launch of his latest survey focusing on wellbeing, policing and public safety, with a deadline of 6 November 2020.

Here a link to the survey www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/WYConversation

Here is a message from Mark Burns-Williamson:

“Although they capture only a snapshot in time, these surveys are extremely useful in understanding what our communities are experiencing and how we can respond in a way that best supports them from a policing and public safety perspective. Accepting that circumstances will continually change as we manage the effects of this pandemic, these findings still offer an incredibly important insight. They enable us to extract learning points arising from public sentiment and importantly anticipate what might come next, so we can act accordingly. For instance, there is a strong indication from the first survey that the lockdown periods have had a significantly greater impact upon those who already feel vulnerable. This appears to be compounded by the socio-economic factors that COVID-19 has also created.

This knowledge is invaluable, as they can then collectively look at how resources can be managed in a partnership approach that corresponds with community needs.

The results from the first survey undertaken in June 2020 have also been published, highlighting a series of findings and conclusions from the earlier lockdown period.

http://www.westyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk/news-events/news/community-conversation-survey-june-2020

West Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner