Community Engagement and Consultation
Communicating with, and obtaining the views of local people is essential to the work of the Police Authority so we can effectively represent the community. We undertake a wide range of consultation activities to obtain the views of the people of Suffolk on policing, crime and anti-social behaviour issues, and whether they feel the police provide value for money.
Our annual programme of consultation aims to reach all sectors of our communities and we use a variety of methods to help us engage with our different community groups. These include large scale telephone surveys, business forums, conferences based on a particular themes and focussed work with local communities through our focus groups.
All the results from our consultation work is reported to the Authority so that we can take account of the views of our communities when we decide on our policing priorities for the forthcoming year.
Our joint Community Engagement and Consultation Strategy for Suffolk sets out our plans for consultation over the next year. This can be found in our documents section