Best practice

Our case studies cover a wide range of subjects and we are continuously seeking to grow the body of work and practice so that it can be shared.

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  Operation Checkpoint – Working together across the North of England to tackle rural crime

  Operation Checkpoint, co-ordinated by North Yorkshire Police, is the biggest rural policing operation of its kind in the country.

  • Cross border

• More success for Operation Checkpoint clampdown as net tightens on rural criminals

  • Cross border

• Preventing battery and fencing theft in Dorset

  • Farm machinery, plant and vehicle theft

• Crime prevention on farms in Derbyshire Dales

  • Farm machinery, plant and vehicle theft
  • Farming

• Takling fly tipping together in Hertfordshire

  • Fly-tipping

• Tackling fly-tipping in Buckinghamshire

  • Fly-tipping

• The fight against Modern Day Slavery in Staffordshire

  • Modern Day Slavery

• North Yorkshire Police launch ‘Operation Owl’ to target raptor persecutors

  • Wildlife Crime

• Protecting England’s Heritage

  • Heritage

• A Year Tackling Rural Crime in Dorset

  • Farm machinery, plant and vehicle theft
  • Fly-tipping
  • Livestock offences

• Use of Facebook closed groups to share Rural crime information

  • Cross border
  • Farming
  • Improved Reporting

• Rural Barnstorming

  • Improved Reporting
  • Strategy

• Fast text SMS

  • Farming
  • Poaching

• “Stop that Thief”

  • Farming
  • Plant theft

• Green Routes Initiative

  • Farming
  • Poaching
  • Wildlife Crime

• DNA Kits

  • Farming
  • Poaching
  • Wildlife Crime

• RURAL POLICE STOP ME PROJECT

  • Farming
  • Plant theft

• Specials Rural Policing Team – Essex

  • Cross border
  • Farming
  • Improved Reporting
  • Volunteers
  • Wildlife Crime

• Project Trespass – multi agency anti-poaching initiative

  • Cross border
  • Wildlife Crime

• Using Proceeds of Crime Act in cases of Wildlife Crime

  • Wildlife Crime

• Durham Flytipping Taskforce

  • Cross border
  • Improved Reporting
  • Strategy
  • Tipping

• Dorset Rural Crimestoppers

  • Improved Reporting

• Eston Hills, Cleveland – Rural Crime

  • Farming
  • Off-roading

• Lancashire Sheep Thefts Initiative

  • Farming

• Rural Crime Strategy – West Mercia

  • Cross border
  • Strategy

• Flygrazing law is a ‘major achievement’

  • Flygrazing

• Partnership fights rural crime in the Thames Valley

  • Plant theft
  • Poaching

• Joint operation with farmers in Northamptonshire prevents poaching

  • Poaching

• Farm Watch scheme reduces rural crime in Cumbria

  • Plant theft

• Hertfordshire Police target heritage crime

  • Heritage

• Honey trap digger helps Cheshire police catch criminal gang

  • Plant theft

• Northumbria Police change rural crime tactics

  • Cross border

• Farm Watch officer cuts crime levels by 27% in Gwent

  • Cross border

• Operation Midas – Cross border crime

  • Cross border
  • Poaching

• Support service for people in mental distress

  • Mental health

• Action taken to protect Britain’s rural heritage

  • Heritage
  • Off-roading