Police: Rural Areas
Commons · Question 29044 · Tabled 10 Sep 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Charlie Maynard
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that police forces serving predominantly rural areas have sufficient resources to investigate and prevent rural crime.
Answer
Answered by Sarah Jones, 21 Sep 2026
Rural crime can have a devastating impact on rural communities and the agricultural sector. Rural crime is not recorded as a distinct category within police recorded crime, so it is not possible to produce a single, centrally verified assessment of its sc...