Crime: Rural Areas
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve the recording and reporting of rural crime as a distinct category within national policing frameworks.
Answered by Sarah Jones
There is no distinct offence category or grouping that captures rural crimes separately from other offences. Currently any centrally held data on crimes recorded by the police and the investigative outcomes of crimes will not be broken down into rural crime.
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