Overwhelming majority of Poles think Poland is a safe country

As many as 89 percent of Poles claim that Poland is a safe place to live, according to the CBOS poll. Only 9 percent thinks otherwise. This is the best result since 1987, when the first such poll was conducted. Compared to last year, the number of respondents that think Poland is safe country increased by 9 percent. In 2016, 16 percent claimed that it's not a safe place to live. Among the polled, 14 percent of respondents said that in the last five years, they were a victim of a theft, 7 percent experienced a break in, into their property, 3 percent were assaulted. Throughout the history of the poll, until 2007, the majority of Poles claimed that Poland is not a safe place to live.