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Progress on Rural and Wildlife Crime Priorities

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Our Ref: NY09782

Date: 14/07/2025

Freedom of Information request reference number: NY9782

I write in connection with your request for information that was received by the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Policing, Fire and Crime Team (PFC) on the 8th July.

Question/ Request:

In Jo Coles’ priorities document, the only mention of wildlife crime comes in this priority: “Strengthening the Rural Crime Taskforce with additional resources and personnel to address rural crime, including agricultural theft, wildlife crime and violence against women and girls.”

Please could you outline how this has progressed since coming to office, generally, and specifically:

  • how many personal have been allocated to address each of the topics mention i.e. rural crime, agricultural theft, wildlife crime, violence against women and girls and what in the % increase of each since coming to office?
  • please can you define the ‘additional resources’ mentioned?
  • What additional resources have been made available since coming to office?
  • North Yorkshire is the country’s worst place for raptor crime in the country (RSPB), what policies are being drawn up to address this and when are they going to be introduced?
  • anything else you wish to add on this topic? My requests for interview have to date been ignored but I am very happy to site for an interview on these topics.

If you are only able to release some of the information I would ask that you release this data rather than withhold the entire set.

 

Answer/ Response:

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within the PFC.

Please see attached below the Police and Crime Plan 2025-2029 Consultation Report which may hold the information you are looking for.

Appendix+2a+Police+and+Crime+Plan+Consultation+Report.pdf

There is no information held by the PFC in order to answer your request.

The information you are looking for may be held by North Yorkshire Police.

You can submit a freedom of information request to North Yorkshire Police using the below link: Request information | North Yorkshire Police

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. It should be noted therefore that the PFC’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.