Police rural hubs examined over response times concerns in North Yorkshire

Chief superintendent Catherine Clarke told a North Yorkshire Council meeting staff were examining a vast bank of data as part of an ongoing project to understand the force’s response times to different types of incidents.

She said it had been “identified that there are some areas around North Yorkshire that don’t receive exactly the same response times”.

The apparent policy change follows community leaders in rural areas and some market towns expressing frustration about the lack of officers available in their areas to respond to emergencies or rapidly-developing situations.

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