Faith in the police has crumbled to a historic low in the last decade, a study has shown.
Just 49% of 32,000 people interviewed for the Crime Survey for England and Wales described their local police as doing a 'good or excellent job' in the year to March 2025.
This was down 13 percentage points from 62% a decade ago.
Indeed the percentage of people giving their local force a 'good or excellent' rating has gone down every year since a high of 63% in the year ending March 2016.
It is one of several metrics which illustrates a lack of public satisfaction with policing in England and Wales, as hard-up constabularies battle with increased community tensions, reputational damage caused by police officers convicted in high-profile cases, and allegations of a 'two-tier' justice system.
