Between March and September 2020, human-rights groups documented 10 killings by Angola's police and military, including the deaths of five boys aged 14-16 (Amnesty International, 2020). This dispatch reports on a special survey module included in the Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021/2023) questionnaire to explore Africans' experiences and assessments of police professionalism. Findings in Angola show that a majority of citizens experience insecurity and fear in their neighbourhoods and say the government needs to do a better job of reducing crime. Few express trust in the police, who are more widely seen as corrupt than other key state institutions.