Is Survey Police Legit? (Learn the Full Truth)​

If you have looked for reviews of survey sites, you have likely come across the Survey Police website.

But is Survey Police legit and trustworthy, or is it a scam and a site you should stay away from?

As someone who has tested hundreds of paid survey sites and taken thousands of paid surveys, I have naturally come across SurveyPolice.com. And let me just reveal right away that it has both pros and cons.

In this Survey Police review, you will learn all the details so you know exactly what to expect. I will also share my opinion about the site and will also show you some things you will not hear anywhere else.

What is Survey Police, and what does it offer?

Let me just start by making it clear that this review is based on my opinion and experience. I have taken thousands of online surveys myself and tested hundreds of survey sites and other ways to make money online for free. It is based on this experience that I have created this review – but it is still just an opinion. Just to make that clear:-)

SurveyPolice.com has existed since 2005, so it has been around for a while. Let me first make it clear that it is NOT affiliated with any law enforcement agency. It is just a very catchy name, but it does not have any official authority.

It is actually not really a survey site or panel itself, but a survey review site. Let me reveal right away that it is legit as it only recommends legit survey sites, you can get access to some information without joining, and it is free to join.

It does have quite a bit of information and can be very useful if you are interested in paid surveys. BUT, in my opinion, there are also a lot of things that are not so great about it. But more about that later. Let's first go over what Survey Police has to offer.

I have created a video that shows you all the details, but you can also read all the details below the video:

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Option 1 – Access to Survey Reviews

SurveyPolice is, first of all, a survey review site. I think this is great, as surveys can be a great way to make some extra money and have your opinion heard at the same time, I think there needs to be easy access to good information about surveys to help people stay away from the survey scams.

However, even though you can find a list and reviews of a very large amount of survey panels on Survey Police, there is some information I think is missing, and that is one of the reasons I created PaidFromSurveys.com as an alternative to Survey Police and some of the other existing sites. But more about this later.

What is great about the reviews on Survey Police is that you can find reviews and some basic facts about more or less any survey site that exists.

In my opinion, there is, however, not a lot of in-depth info, and you only get factual info, and the info from Survey Police does not always seem to be written by real survey users.

As a user of Survey Police, you have the option to leave your own reviews, and this is one of the big selling points of Survey Police.

There are some great things about this, but the disadvantage is that they are very short, and reviews like this can, unfortunately, be manipulated, as I will explain more about later.

Option 2 – Become a Member

Even though Survey Police is not an actual survey site but a site that connects you to survey panels, you can still become a member.

You can see most of the info on the site without becoming a member, which I like. But if you want to leave a review yourself, you have to become a member.

In addition to leaving reviews, you will, as a member, get access to a survey tracker.

This is basically just a list where you can add the survey panels you are a member of and record whenever you have taken a survey and how much you have made. This is something you have to do manually.

I think it can be a great idea to record this info, as it is a great way to stay motivated when you see how much you make, and it is a way to make sure you get paid for all the surveys you are taking.

However, I do not see any point in recording this in Survey Police's database. Personally, I record it on an Excel sheet instead, so I know I will always have access to it, even if I should cancel my membership with Survey Police.

Overall, I do not see any point in signing up for Survey Police unless you want to leave reviews yourself. If you just want to look at the info, you can just do it without becoming a member.

But this actually something I like – they do not try to force you to become a member, and the site is honest about what it is offering.

Option 3 – Blog and News

Survey Police has a blog that posts news and articles about survey sites and opportunities.

Even though there, in general, is a lot of useful info on Survey Police, I am honestly not impressed with the info in the blog section.

In my opinion, it is mostly quite superficial info with the point of getting you to join the offers they get paid to promote. Nothing wrong with getting paid to promote on websites – that is how website owners can afford to spend so much time providing info, I also do this on this website, as it would otherwise not be possible to keep a website like this going.

However, in my opinion, the info should be more thorough and give more inside tips.

There is some good info, but it does NOT seem to be written by somebody who has actual experience in taking paid surveys, in my opinion. It seems more like a team of people hired to write for the sake of promoting certain offers. I might be wrong, but that is my impression, and you might think differently.

This does not mean the info cannot be valuable but just that you might not get all the inside tips from real users but mostly tips from professional writers who are not taking surveys themselves but are just good at doing research.

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Are Survey Police Reviews trustworthy?

As mentioned already, the main purpose of Survey Police is to review survey sites and give people info about these opportunities.

In one way, I like that the reviews are made by users who register on the site. This should, in theory, make the reviews unbiased as you get reviews from many different people.

However, on the other hand, this also has some disadvantages, and it can easily be manipulated or give a distorted picture of certain sites.

So what do I mean when I say reviews can be manipulated or end up giving you the wrong impression on review sites like this?

Let me first say this has nothing particularly to do with Survey Police but something that goes for all review sites with user reviews.

Even though the idea is that the reviews should then be unbiased, companies have, of course, found out how much reviews mean when people decide what to join or buy. Of course, they have also found ways to try to hire people to do such reviews that are very positive.

I know this, as I have worked with online marketing myself for many years, and I have once been in a company that was doing this and trying to push up the ratings by leaving a lot of VERY positive reviews for certain companies. This is one risk of user reviews.

Another flaw is that people often only write reviews when they are upset. Think about it yourself – when you have a bad experience, you are probably more likely to actively look for a place to share your experience and leave a review than you are when you are satisfied with a certain service.

I see it myself on this website. The survey panels that are known for having some customer support issues are the ones that get the most comments, and people want to warn others. But the best survey sites do not as often get comments, as people do not often actively look for a place to write positively about a site.

So, on one side, reviews can be manipulated into showing a higher ranking, and on the other side, the results can sometimes be distorted as people are more inclined to leave poor reviews.

When that is said, it does not seem like the reviews on Survey Police are, in general, manipulated to look more positive, and if they are, it is likely not by Survey Police itself but something the panels themselves attempt to do.

So overall, I think the reviews are trustworthy, but you have to be aware that they will very likely not give you the whole truth. Furthermore, the reviews just give you very short explanations about people either liking it or not, and there is no real in-depth info, in my opinion.

The good and the bad

As you can probably already understand from my description of Survey Police, I think the website has both some great and some not-so-great sides.

So, let me elaborate a bit on the good and bad sides to give you a better overview and understanding.

The good sides of Survey Police

Only lists legit survey panels:

One aspect that is really good about SurveyPolice is that it only lists legit survey panels. Some of them might not be very good, but you can be sure that any survey site that is listed on Survey Police is legit.

This is important, as there, unfortunately, are many survey scams out there where you will end up losing money instead of making any, and many people happily promote these because they get a good commission for it.

There are even many survey review sites that promote some of the scam sites.

Luckily Survey Police has not fallen for this temptation and is only listing legit sites.

Has a big list of survey sites:

I must admit that the amount of survey sites listed on Survey Police is huge. I do not know how big the company is, but it seems it is fairly big since it has the resources to gather a list this big.

So, to get access to the biggest list of survey sites, Survey Police is probably the place to go. However, when it comes to survey sites, quality is a lot more important than quantity, in my opinion.

The downsides of Survey Police

The info can be superficial:

In my opinion, one of the biggest downsides of Survey Police is that it has a lot of superficial info.

There is a lot of info, a lot of blog posts, and a lot of reviews, but the info is mostly factual, and I think it lacks the depth and details to be really helpful.

Country-specific lists are very poor:

Survey Police has a function that allows you to see which survey sites are available in your country. I think this is a great idea, and I am using country-specific lists like this myself on this website. However, the lists on SurveyPolice seem to autogenerate and give very poor info.

For example, let´s say you want to check which survey sites you can join if you live in the Philippines, where it is not so easy to find good survey sites. You choose this country on the list and get a very long list:

At first, this seems exciting to see this many opportunities and sites you can join. The problem is just that these are not actually all available in the Philippines. Most of them are not available, and many of the sites that are will only give very poor opportunities.

So you can end up wasting a lot of time if you try to join all these sites. This might come down to not being a list made from personal research and experience but just autogenerated with a focus on quantity over quality, which can end up costing you a lot of time.

Reviews can be manipulated:

I have already explained this in detail, but I still wanted to put it here on the list, as it is an important aspect to consider for any site with user-generated reviews.

It does not mean that these sites cannot be useful because they definitely can, and I also use them myself often when I am researching a new product to buy, etc.

It just means it is something to be aware of, and it is a good idea to look into how natural the reviews look and the language they are written in before blindly trusting them. And also, look at the actual complaints – do they seem like good reasons to complain, or is it just someone being negative for the sake of being negative?

An alternative to Survey Police

The downsides of SurveyPolice and many similar sites are one of the reasons I initially decided to start this website and blog.

When I first started to look into making money by taking surveys, I found it was very hard to find any in-depth info.

There are many sites with superficial lists that are just meant to push the panel that pays them the highest commission. Some of them even try to promote scam sites just to make higher commissions.

Then there are sites like Survey Police that give a lot of info and only promote legit opportunities. I appreciate this and must say Survey Police is one of the best sites like this.

I, however, felt that there was also the need to create an alternative to all these sites, and I, therefore, created PaidFromSurveys.com, where I try to focus on quality over quantity and give as much in-depth info as possible from an actual user perspective.

I am not saying Survey Police is a bad site to use because it is not. It depends on what you are looking for, and in my experience, it has some downsides and lacks some info that many people want and are looking for.

For example, the country-specific lists I mentioned before. On PaidFromSurveys.com there are not as many as on Survey Police, but the ones that are here are 100% manually built and researched to focus on quality and not just made to give as big a list as possible.

Final Thoughts

I think it is clear by now that Survey Police is a legit site.

In my opinion, it, however, has some flaws, and unless you want to leave reviews on the site, there is no need to join the site as a member.

I, in general, do not like sites where you are more or less forced to join to get info about survey sites (an example is Panel Place), as I think this should be easily available and should not be hidden behind a login.

Luckily Survey Police does also give access to a lot of info without logging in.

So, in short – you can find some good info on Survey Police, but be aware that some of it might be superficial and more meant to sell. But if you want quantity, it is probably one of the biggest survey info sites that exist at the moment.

If you have any comments, any questions, or experiences with SurveyPolice, I would love to hear from you in a comment below.