Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of police officers are dedicated to rural crime teams in each police force in (a) England and (b) Wales.

The Home Office does not hold data on police officers working in rural crime teams.

The Home Office collects and publishes data biannually on the size and composition of the police workforce, in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales.

Information is collected on the primary function of each officer however the specific team an officer is assigned to, such as “rural crime team”, is not collected.