rural crime network
20 May 2015
Survey to uncover rural crime impact
A NATIONAL survey aims to uncover the impact of crime and anti-social behaviour on rural communities. The biggest ever rural survey into crime and anti-social behaviour seeks to find out...
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20 Mar 2015
Rural Crime Network – Services
National Rural Crime Network website launchedThe new National Rural Crime Network is now live. The formation of the NRCN was originally conceived by the Rural Services Network which acts as a...
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15 Jan 2015
Fingerprints ‘breakthrough’ for wildlife crime investigators
Scientists say they have made a forensic breakthrough in the fight against wildlife crime. To read more from this BBC article, click here.
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29 Dec 2014
No horsing around in commissioner’s crackdown on fly-grazing
Hertfordshire’s crime commissioner is working in conjunction with an animal charity in an effort to tackle the countywide problem of ‘fly-grazing’ and stray horses. Fly-grazing involves using someone else’s land,...
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29 Dec 2014
Rural Crime prevention leaflet
A new Rural Crime prevention leaflet is available on the North Yorkshire Police website at http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/ruralcrimeleaflet
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26 Nov 2014
Travelling criminals targeted in cross border crackdown
139 vehicles were stopped last night and cash and drugs seized in a joint police operation across the north of England. Five police forces took part in Operation Checkpoint which...
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26 Nov 2014
Home Secretary endorses agricultural crime initiative
Home Secretary Theresa May MP has praised an agricultural industry led crime initiative which brings farmers, auctioneers and the police together in an effort to put an end to livestock...
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10 Nov 2014
UFU hosts crime conference
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has hosted its inaugural rural crime conference ‘Tackling Rural Crime in Northern Ireland – Working Together’ at the Crumlin Road Gaol, welcoming nearly 140 people from...
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07 Oct 2014
More police resources for ‘insecure’ rural areas?
A POLICE and crime commissioner has pledged to divert police resources from urban areas to the countryside if a major survey finds that farmers and landowners ‘do not feel secure’....
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24 Sep 2014
UFU launch 2014 rural crime conference
The Ulster Farmers’ Union has announced that registration is now open for the Union’s first official rural crime conference entitled ‘Tackling Rural Crime in Northern Ireland – Working Together’ To...
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