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“However the information we’ve seen suggests that the picture may be rosier for police forces than the Times article suggests, and rather than declining public trust, recent years have actually seen an increase in popular confidence in the police.”
http://fullfact.org/factchecks/police_trust_public_confidence_the_times-2675
Not according to the Home Office’s British Crime Survey data. Since 2004, this has recorded public perceptions of how effective the police are at doing their jobs. General confidence in the police has risen steadily from 50 per cent in 2005/06 to 56 per cent in 2009/10, whilst there has been a comparable increase in perceptions of local forces, rising from 63 per cent approval to 69 per cent over the same period.