Prague, Jan 22 (CTK) – The feeling of safety has considerably increased in the Czech Republic over the past two years, as now 86 percent of Czechs feel safe, 10 percent more than at the end of 2015, according to a poll conducted by the CVVM polling agency in December and released on Monday.
Satisfaction with the police work on both national and local levels was expressed by roughly 70 percent of Czechs, the highest ever recorded figure.
The increased feeling of safety may arise from the fact that no terrorist attack has occurred in the Czech Republic, there was no massive influx of migrants and it is considered a safe region, the pollsters said.
A total of 86 percent of the respondents said they feel safe, while 65 percent of them said they feel fairly safe and 21 percent decidedly safe.
Some 12 percent of Czechs feel rather unsafe and 2 percent do not feel safe at all.
During the 15 years when these questions were asked, the number of Czechs feeling safe has almost doubled, from 45 percent to 86 percent.
In the place of residence the figure is even higher, 88 percent.
Satisfaction with the police work is now the highest since 2002, when CVVM started asking the question.
Some 74 percent of Czechs endorse the police work in their place of residence, the highest figure over the past 25 years.
Two-thirds of the respondents say terrorist groups and individuals are a big threat to safety.
“Over one-half of the respondents say refugees, international organised crime and radical religious movement pose a big threat. However, the proportion decreased by about one-tenth in the past two years,” CVVM analysts said.
About one-quarter of Czechs are afraid of leftist or rightist extremists, foreign intelligence services and foreigners living in the Czech Republic.
This assessment has not changed since 2015, with the exception of the threat of a war, now denoted as a security threat by 20 percent less than then.
