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Date: 11 July 2022
1/ The annual number of a) offences and b) charges and court summons for different Home Office offence groups broken down by the location of the incident in either i) rural areas or ii) all areas within the force's jurisdiction in 2016 and 2021.
The offence groups forces are obligated to record are detailed here (eg. violence against the person, sexual offences):
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/977202/count-offence-classification-index-apr-2021.pdf
Please state clearly if the force does not have rural areas within its jurisdiction but provide the rest of the data (i.e. parts a and b for ii).
2/ The number of officers who are stationed in rural areas for each year from 2015 to 2021 inclusive. This refers to the number of officers stationed (i.e. their principle base) in rural police stations. Ideally please provide their rank, but only if easily possible within the response timeframe.
Wiltshire Police does not breakdown its areas into metro/rurality, and thus the majority of the information you have request technically does not exist. Even with the removal of the term ‘rural’, there is a strong chance that the information requested would breech the s12 exemption.
We have however provided you what we can in information we do hold (CPT breakdowns – please see downloads below).
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