As part of its contract to manage the Aberdeenshire Citizens' Panel, the Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership (ACPP) commissioned Craigforth in early 2006 to conduct a postal survey exercise with the Citizens' Panel.

The survey was developed from discussions with the ACPP partners and was issued to all 1324 Panel members in June 2006. A total of 948 survey forms were returned, representing an overall response rate of 72%.

This survey was a follow up to the 2004 Community Wellbeing Survey and the 2005 Banff and Buchan Survey on Community Safety and Policing. It sought views on the following topic areas:

• Policing issues in Aberdeenshire;
• Panel members' experience of any recent contact with the Police;
• Broader community safety issues in Aberdeenshire;
• Panel members' awareness of the Aberdeenshire Community Safety Partnership; and
• Views on future distribution of Police performance information.

This web page deals only with the results of the questions on Policing issues in Aberdeenshire and Broader community safety issues in Aberdeenshire, it also deals with Perceived Levels of Crime and Fear of Crime and awareness of the Aberdeenshire Community Safety Partnership.

The full report is available on line as a PDF file .

The first issue of the Citizens' Panel Newsletter which reports on the 2004 Citizens' Panel Survey is available online. It includes summaries of the Community Safety, Policing, Transport and Health results.