The Conservatives let down the countryside when it comes to crime, Labour must do better

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The Conservatives let down the countryside when it comes to crime, Labour must do better
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As our county’s countryside community comes together at the Great Yorkshire Show today, they’re going to have even more than usual to talk about.

The Labour government’s attitude towards agriculture will undoubtedly be debated by many attending this greatest of events in the Yorkshire calendar over the next four days, but so might a problem demanding the urgent attention of ministers mastering new briefs – rural crime. Our countryside and those who live and work in it are being preyed on by criminals, and nothing like enough is being done to bring them to justice.

The service is under unprecedented pressures and short of personnel after government mismanagement stretching back more than a decade which has seen it starved of funding and unable to recruit enough officers. Let’s not forget that at the 2019 general election, the Conservatives promised to recruit an additional 20,000 officers, conveniently neglecting to mention they would only be replacing the numbers cut over the previous few years.

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