Do Londoners still have faith in the Police?

What do Londoners think of the Met.

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00:00Sir Sadiq Khan's policing deputy faced questions on Wednesday over the continually low levels

00:08of trust and confidence Londoners have in the Metropolitan Police. The criticism comes

00:14two years after Baroness Casey concluded in a scathing review that the Met was institutionally

00:21racist, sexist and homophobic. But according to public attitude surveys conducted by the

00:28Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, trust and confidence in the Met remained far lower

00:33when Sadiq Khan took office as Mayor in 2016. Confidence in particular is at an all-time

00:39low with only 46% of Londoners believing the police are doing a good job in their local

00:45area. This compares with an all-time high of 69% in 2016. At a meeting of the London

00:54Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, the committee's Tory Chair, Susan Hoare, said

00:59of Londoners' confidence in the Met Police that she thinks we can all agree it needs

01:04to be better than it is now. But what do Londoners actually think of the Met Police and do we

01:11see enough of them on our streets?

01:13Well, I think seeing them around is not the same as whether they're effective or not.

01:18And I think I feel okay about them. I don't feel any worse about them. I think there are

01:23weaknesses, but I don't think there are any. It's got no worse to me.

01:26I've got to say, I was part of the system, if you like, for over 30 years. I used to

01:32be in the Britain service. So, you know, I think people have. I don't trust them as much

01:39as I once did, but fundamentally, I'm supportive of them.

01:43Well, of course, there used to be policemen walking around. But I don't think that necessarily

01:50is good policing. You know, it's much more complicated than seeing policemen standing

01:55about or walking about. It really is.

01:57I mean, when we were young, buggers were walking up and down, walking up and down the street,

02:02you know.

02:03They knew your name.

02:04Knew your name. Not now. All you see is them flashing by in cars, and that's it.

02:09Is that something that you'd like to see again? Like, go back to that time? Would that make

02:12you...

02:13Oh, flipping hell, yeah. It's only a bit old-fashioned, going back to the time. But in some ways,

02:17in some aspects, it was better and that were better.

02:20Yeah, I think it's quite a difficult question because I think it's very hard to determine

02:25what's done. It's usually done on a case-by-case basis. And I think everybody would just hope

02:30that their case is, you know, handled with care and that's what the police aim to do.

02:35So I think it's just very hard to pinpoint what's been done unless you look at the full

02:40details of the case and then just hope and trust that everybody can do the best thing

02:44they can to reach a solution to said problem.

02:48If Bobbies knew your name and they knew where you lived, you don't do anything wrong because

02:52they'd be roamed at your house.