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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Metropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017

Variable Details

VariableNQ135B1
LabelNQ135B1 What would you like the police to do about these issues?: First mention
Responses
1 Find a way of stopping / dealing with it 878
2 Be given more power / resources to deal with it 377
3 Be stricter in dealing with / give harsher sentences to offe 989
4 Better border controls / immigration controls 24
5 More stop and search 351
6 More police patrols / more visible policing / more police wa 2171
7 Better community relationships / community involvement / pub 226
8 More for young people / youths to do 235
9 Better education 179
10 Deportation 9
11 National service 27
12 Capital punishment 9
13 Review licensing laws / raise the legal age for drinking / s 30
14 Hold parents responsible / get them more involved 61
15 Introduce curfews 21
16 Less restrictions on recruitment i.e. height etc 3
17 Improvement needed 21
18 More power for PCSOs 22
19 Better training and more specialist police 56
20 More CCTV / security and equipment 160
21 Police ethnicity to be more representative of society 25
22 Neighbourhood watch 14
23 Reclassify cannabis 17
24 Police public transport 27
25 Provide more rubbish bins 3
26 Name and shame criminals 3
27 Police to treat everyone equally regardless of race creed or 10
28 Weapon amnesty / confiscate all weapons 24
29 Better street lighting 0
30 Continue and improve current campaigns i.e. Operation Triden 11
31 Provide more social housing 0
32 No more community police / PCSOs 2
33 Less focus on petty crime i.e. motorists and more focus on r 2
34 Clamp down on those selling drink to underage people 1
35 Issue I.D. cards to be shown when buying knives, drink, toba 11
36 Break up gangs or crowds of teenagers/ youths/ kids gatheri 7
37 Do more to tackle sales of guns 9
38 Cut down on immigration 0
39 Less paperwork 12
40 Legalise drugs to bring in more money for the government 3
41 Quicker response to calls 10
42 Raise the legal age for driving 1
43 I.D. cards 1
44 Same as previous answer 0
998 None/nothing 503
999 Don't know 1145
Sysmiss 89595
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMetropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017
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