Oct 28 - Police Authority Annual Questionnaire Launched
The Gibraltar Police Authority today launched its annual questionnaire that aims to ascertain the views of those living and working in Gibraltar on how Gibraltar is policed. The Authority is required in law to draw up and publish an Annual Policing Plan for Gibraltar, which sets out the targets and priorities for policing. Before doing so, the Authority consults the public. The survey launched today follows the same successful methodology as was introduced in 2011.
Surveys will be posted at random to a selection of addresses, distributed to places of work and members of the GPA staff will hold face-to-face interviews. Members of the Authority will also be holding two awareness mornings on the Main Street during November where they will be available to answer questions.
The Authority has encouraged as many people as possible to dedicate a few minutes to fill in the questionnaire to offer them their opinion. This can be done online at www.gpa.gi. In the alternative, a questionnaire can be collected from the GPA offices or a request can be made to the GPA offices so that a questionnaire is sent by post. The Authority appreciates and values the participation of the public in this important public consultation. The results and comments received from the survey will be analysed and used to prepare the Annual Policing Plan for the year commencing 1st April 2014.
Chairman of the Authority, John Gonçalves commented, ‘the RGP have had an extremely challenging year and it is with great interest that we look forward to hearing the public’s opinion on the policing and generally on the performance of the RGP over the past 12 months.’
