Rural crime concerns aired at national conference / Yorkshire Dales News, 15 March 2007
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"THE head of a leading countryside campaign group has been giving his views on the scourge of crime in rural areas - a subject that rouses strong feelings in many country folk who feel sidelined by police forces that concentrate on urban areas. Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, used his speech to a major local government and Policing conference in Birmingham to outline the Alliance's views on tackling rural crime.
He shared the platform at the event with the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office's Crime Strategy Unit, making it a real opportunity to communicate with those in positions of influence about how to combat rural crime."