Village President Jack Tatooles made public the results of the village’s first police survey at a recent Village Board meeting.
“In general, 92 percent of the respondents felt safe walking alone in their neighborhood at night,” according to the report.
Village administrator Curt Carver termed the results favorable and useful in future planning and communication with the Barrington-Inverness Police Department.
Of 2,300 surveys sent out in July, 718 were returned to the village, Carver said.
Of the respondents, 328 said they had at least one contact with the local police department in the prior year.
Of those, 198 rated the response time of the police as good or excellent; 22 said poor; 48 said no opinion.
Officer competence was rated good or excellent by 228 of the 328 who had contact with the police. Twenty-two rated officer competence as poor and 31 had no opinion.
In officer fairness, 19 rated the officers poor, 48 had no opinion and 212 said good or excellent.
Regarding officer courtesy, 240 rated the police good or excellent, 28 poor and 23 had no opinion.
An average of more than 75 percent of the responses rated the police contact as favorable, either good or excellent, according to the report.
The favorable response dropped in the categories of police visibility among all of those who responded.
Regarding neighborhood and community visibility of police, 57 percent of the respondents, according to Carver, gave the police a favorable rating. The remainder rated the visibility low or had no opinion.
The respondents gave the highest priority to “quick response to crimes in progress, 24-hour patrol, burglary investigation, drunken driving and related drug activities.”
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