DON’T miss out on the chance to have your say on Dorset Police.

After five months of consulting Dorset Police are asking residents for a final contribution to the Your Dorset, Your Police, Your View campaign.

During the consultation Dorset Police has already received more than three and a half thousand responses from the public, who have been sharing their views on different areas of policing.

Every month, the consultation looked at a different area of policing and at the end of each month, the public were asked to give their views on that topic, through an online survey and in comments on social media. Topics included modernising to improve policing, preventative and proactive policing, local policing and working smarter and closer with others.

Chief Constable Debbie Simpson said: “Overall, the findings from this initiative were extremely informative and constructive. I would like to thank everyone who took the time to complete the questionnaires or provide their views in other ways.

“Already, the results have assisted us in being able to identify the key areas where the public are happy with our service, the main concerns they have, and ideas they would support for the future.”

She added: “While we have already taken these monthly results into account in our planning, we are still asking for people to give their views during this important final month.

“This will allow us to explore some of the main findings from previous months in more detail and will give people a chance to tell us which areas of policing they think will be most important for us to tackle over the next five years.”

Dorset Police said that so far, 75 percent of respondents had confidence in the police in their area. 17 percent of respondents felt that their local police do an ‘excellent’ job and 52 percent expressed that they did a ‘good’ job.

Officers added that the ideas for the future that received the most support among the survey responses focused on technological developments and reporting crime.

Almost 40 percent of suggestions of ways the public can do more to help Dorset Police involved better crime reporting. This could include improved use of online crime reporting, via email or the Dorset Police website, which was wanted by 79 percent of respondents.

Chief Constable Debbie Simpson urged people to get involved in the final month and give feedback on the top five areas of policing that they feel Dorset Police should be focusing on over the next five years.

The survey can be found by clicking this link.