Take the Antioch Police Department’s Community Survey by Nov. 9
In partnership with Cal State East Bay
“Your feedback is important to us.” – Chief Joe Vigil
By Antioch Police Department
The Antioch Police Department’s Community Survey is now open from September 10 through November 9.
In a video posted on the Department’s Facebook on Thursday, Chief Joe Vigil said, “Every day our department works hard to keep you and the community safe. But we are constantly and always looking at ways to improve how we can better serve you. That’s why we’ve partnered with a local college to put out a community survey, because your feedback is important to us. We want to hear about what you’re seeing in the city, what you’re seeing in your neighborhoods and ways that we can improve.”
“We’ll be advertising the survey at our monthly and bi-weekly Neighborhood Watch meetings, community meetings and city council meetings,” he continued. “A mailer will also go out in this month’s water bill with all the information on how to participate in the survey.”
“The survey is completely anonymous and does not ask you to provide any personal information,” Vigil stated. “Because your feedback is important to us, we want to hear how we can better improve and serve the city and the department.”
“The survey will remain open for 60 days. So, please when you see the survey, participate because your feedback is important to us,” he concluded.
The survey asks about your experiences with police services, how safe you feel in Antioch, and the public safety issues that matter most to you. The survey is anonymous and was developed with California State University East Bay professors and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
According to the California Center for Data Insights and Innovation, “the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects serves as the institutional review board (IRB) for the California Health and Human Services Agency to ensure that research involving human subjects is conducted ethically and with minimal risk to participants.”
Asked about the process, Lt. Dan Fachner said, “It took six months to put the survey together and certify it through the state’s IRB. That allows us to publish it as a survey, if we ever want to do that, to ensure it is non-biased that we’re not trying to elicit or lead responses. It’s also so the average person that we send this to can understand it.”
“It’s probably about a 10-minute survey,” he continued. “I don’t know when we will issue the report. We don’t know a hard date, right now. The researchers I worked with said if we want to get the survey completed by the end of the year, we needed to do it before the holidays.”
Your feedback will help us understand what’s important to our community and where we can improve.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and share it with your neighbors.
Scan the QR code included in the mailer inside the water bill or use this link bit.ly/3U8XAEd to participate.
Allen D. Payton contributed to this report.
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