Every little vote helps

Shoppers at a supermarket in the City are being given a novel way to show what issues they’d like to see the local police focus on.

City workers and residents visiting the Tesco store on Bishopsgate are being given tokens as they queue to pay for their shopping, which they can drop into ballot boxes marked with possible force priorities.

The scheme is part of City of London Police’s regular supermarket surgeries, which give the force the opportunity to speak with residents who might be too busy to attend community partnership meetings.
 
More than 500 shoppers dropped tokens into the ballot box during the first survey, and security during the World Cup was given as the area of policing on most people’s minds.

Wards Sergeant, Matt Mountford, said: “The ballot box idea proved to be very popular. It’s just another way of making sure we’re tackling the issues that are most important to our local communities.”

Find out further information on how the force is preparing for the World Cup by reading the SMS Alert - Kickoff!.