Version Date: 01/10/2014
Devon & Cornwall Police
Record 1
Freedom of Information Act Request No: 5123/14
1. Does your police force have a definition of ‘Rural Crime’ that it works to? If yes
what is that definition?
2. Does your police force have a specific rural crime policy or strategy? If yes
please provide me with a copy of that policy or strategy. If this is not possible
please tell me why and indicate whether that policy or strategy makes specific
mention of counterfeit plant protection products (pesticides).
The Local Policing & Partnership Department have provided the following information:
1. Does your police force have a definition of ‘Rural Crime’ that it works to? If yes
what is that definition?
Devon and Cornwall Police use the Rural/Urban Definition, an official National Statistic
introduced in 2004, which defines the rurality of very small census based geographies.
Census Output Areas forming settlements with populations of over 10,000 are urban,
while the remainder are defined as one of three rural types: town and fringe, village or
hamlet and dispersed.
2. Does your police force have a specific rural crime policy or strategy? If yes
please provide me with a copy of that policy or strategy. If this is not possible
please tell me why and indicate whether that policy or strategy makes specific
mention of counterfeit plant protection products (pesticides).
See attached document – Record 2
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