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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Metropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017

Variable Details

VariableNQ135B3
LabelNQ135B3 What would you like the police to do about these issues?: Third mention
Responses
1 Find a way of stopping / dealing with it 107
2 Be given more power / resources to deal with it 64
3 Be stricter in dealing with / give harsher sentences to offe 224
4 Better border controls / immigration controls 9
5 More stop and search 52
6 More police patrols / more visible policing / more police wa 212
7 Better community relationships / community involvement / pub 71
8 More for young people / youths to do 48
9 Better education 64
10 Deportation 6
11 National service 2
12 Capital punishment 8
13 Review licensing laws / raise the legal age for drinking / s 15
14 Hold parents responsible / get them more involved 17
15 Introduce curfews 3
16 Less restrictions on recruitment i.e. height etc 1
17 Improvement needed 23
18 More power for PCSOs 0
19 Better training and more specialist police 11
20 More CCTV / security and equipment 19
21 Police ethnicity to be more representative of society 1
22 Neighbourhood watch 0
23 Reclassify cannabis 1
24 Police public transport 5
25 Provide more rubbish bins 1
26 Name and shame criminals 4
27 Police to treat everyone equally regardless of race creed or 2
28 Weapon amnesty / confiscate all weapons 17
29 Better street lighting 2
30 Continue and improve current campaigns i.e. Operation Triden 3
31 Provide more social housing 1
32 No more community police / PCSOs 0
33 Less focus on petty crime i.e. motorists and more focus on r 0
34 Clamp down on those selling drink to underage people 0
35 Issue I.D. cards to be shown when buying knives, drink, toba 2
36 Break up gangs or crowds of teenagers/ youths/ kids gatheri 10
37 Do more to tackle sales of guns 4
38 Cut down on immigration 0
39 Less paperwork 3
40 Legalise drugs to bring in more money for the government 2
41 Quicker response to calls 1
42 Raise the legal age for driving 0
43 I.D. cards 0
44 Same as previous answer 1
998 No 3rd mention 926
999 Don't know 598
Sysmiss 94745
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMetropolitan Police Public Attitudes Surveys, 2000-2017
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