Crime: Rural Areas

(asked on 14th September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what additional resources have been made available to (a) Merseyside Police and (b) wider police forces across England and Wales to deal with rural crime.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 20th September 2021

To support with the existing policing efforts to fight crime, which includes rural crime, this department provides £136,000 in grant funding to the police’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, which is in addition to the £15.8 billion Police Settlement funding given for the year 2021-22. As part of this settlement, Merseyside Police will receive funding of up to £378.3 million.

Furthermore, to boost policing capabilities, this government has recruited 9,814 additional police officers with 532 of these being recruited by Merseyside Police as of 30 June this year.

The allocation of these resources remains a decision for Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables, who understand the priorities of their local communities to ensure that resources, including these new officers are deployed accordingly to fight rural and more general crime.

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