Nearly 47 per cent worried about crime
A recent poll on crime and police work found that 46.97 of Thais were worried about crimes, a police said yesterday.
Pol Col Prapon Sahaphatthana, head of the research project, said the Royal Thai Police and the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) conducted the survey. A total of 12,870 people, including community-policing volunteers in the jurisdiction of 99 precincts, took part. The poll said 65.41 per cent of people had confidence in the police.
The fear of crime was also ranked in terms of areas: the largest number of people scared of crime were in Provincial Police Region 8, the Southern Border Provinces Police Operation Centre and the Provincial Police Region 5 at 54.32 per cent, 52.36 per cent and 51.55 per cent respectively, while people in the Provincial Police Region 3 had the least number of those worried about crime at 32.27 per cent.
Regarding the people’s confidence in police, the Provincial Police Region 3 gained the most confidence at 82.63 per cent, followed by the Provincial Police Region 7 at 75.01 per cent while the Provincial Police Region 8 had the least at 55.82 per cent.
