The long goodbye: a note on the closure of rural police stations and the decline of rural policing in Britain.

Smith, Robert; Somerville, Peter

Abstract

This research note documents the recent controversy surrounding the closure of police stations in the UK between 2007 and 2012. It examines the statistics as reported in the press and discusses the rhetoric used in the debate to draw conclusions about how the closure of police stations will affect rural policing and rural crime.

Citation

SMITH, R. and SOMERVILLE, P. 2013. The long goodbye: a note on the closure of rural police stations and the decline of rural policing in Britain. Policing: a journal of policy and practice [online], 7(4), pages 348-358. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pat031

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 14, 2013
• Online Publication Date: Nov 14, 2013
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2013
• Deposit Date: Sep 28, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 28, 2016
• Journal: Policing: a journal of policy and practice
• Print ISSN: 1752-4512
• Electronic ISSN: 1752-4520
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 348-358
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pat031
• Keywords: Policing; Rural areas; United Kingdom
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1844
• Contract Date: Sep 28, 2016