National Rural Crime Network

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner

I write to you in your capacity as Chair of the National Rural Crime Network as currently I cannot trace NRCN as a separate public authority.

I have just read this document: http://bit.ly/RuralCrimeSurvey2018

NRCN is described as an alliance between various police forces and other interested parties such as the Countryside Alliance and the National Farmers Union, which I take to mean as being a police-owned and managed organisation with additional involvement from non-police rural groups and associations.
https://www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.ne...

However, on this page of the NRCN website https://www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.ne...
it states:
'The National Rural Crime Network is funded by 28 Police and Crime Commissioners and their member Police Forces, contributing an initial sum of £2,000 each together with £1,000 sponsorship from the insurer NFU Mutual.
In 2014, we were awarded a Home Office Police Innovation Fund grant to help set up the Network, create this website and commission a significant piece of research to better understand crime in rural areas. The grant amounted to £57,000 spread over two years. Our budget is managed by North Yorkshire Police, who provide financial support and accounting services.
NFU Mutual are also contributing £2,000. £1000 in 2014/15 and £1,000 in 2015/16.
From April 2016, the Network will become fully self-financing through a scheme of membership subscriptions and appropriate commercial sponsorship.'

1:
If NRCN is now (October 2019) fully funded via membership subscriptions and 'appropriate commercial sponsorship', then it cannot be deemed a police initiative to address rural crime. It appears now to be an organisation along the same lines as, for example, the Countryside Alliance, where members can raise issues.
Please therefore clarify the current and future purpose of NRCN; in particular any links/involvement/connection/members or Board members of the organisation Vote OK, which appears to have the same concerns as NRCN : https://www.vote-ok.co.uk/about_vote-ok

2:
Please clarify the degree of current and future involvement in NRCN of:
Avon and Somerset – Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens
Cambridgeshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Cheshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Cleveland – Police and Crime Commissioner Barry Coppinger
Cumbria – Police and Crime Commissioner
Derbyshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Devon and Cornwall – Police and Crime Commissioner
Dorset – Police and Crime Commissioner Martyn Underhill
Durham – Police and Crime Commissioner Ron Hogg
Dyfed-Powys – Police and Crime Commissioner
Essex – Police and Crime Commissioner
Gloucestershire – Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl
Gwent – Police and Crime Commissioner
Hampshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Hertfordshire – Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd
Kent – Police and Crime Commissioner
Lancashire – Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw
Leicestershire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Lincolnshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Norfolk – Police and Crime Commissioner
North Yorkshire (Chair) – Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan
Northamptonshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
Northumbria – Police and Crime Commissioner Vera Baird
Nottinghamshire – Police and Crime Commissioner Paddy Tipping
Staffordshire – Police and Crime Commissioner Matthew Ellis
Suffolk (Vice-Chair) – Police and Crime Commissioner Tim Passmore
Surrey – Police and Crime Commissioner
Sussex – Police and Crime Commissioner
Thames Valley – Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony Stansfield
Warwickshire – Police and Crime Commissioner
West Mercia – Police and Crime Commissioner
Wiltshire – Police and Crime Commissioner Angus Macpherson
given that the majority of funding for PCCs comes directly from general Government grants and around a third comes from a share of council tax, known as the police precept.

3.
Please define 'appropriate commercial sponsorship' and list all past and present commercial sponsors, to include the procedures used by NRCN to select appropriate commercial sponsors.

4.
Please name the NRCN decision makers responsible for actually selecting appropriate commercial sponsors.

5.
Please advise if the Home Office was involved or consulted in any of the decisions relating to the creation and Board member selection/approval of NRCN, selection of suitable member organisations, and selection of appropriate commercial sponsors.

6.
I note on:
https://www.nationalruralcrimenetwork.ne...
that budgets and accounts 2016/17, budgets and accounts 2017/18 are not published. Please provide all unpublished accounts and update the NRCN funding page.

S Rhosier

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Dear Ms Rhosier,

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Information NYPCC

This request is delayed.

When may I expect a response?

S Rhosier

Information NYPCC,

This is now overdue.

When may I expect a response?

S Rhosier

Information NYPCC, North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner

Dear Ms Rhosier,

Than you for your email.

I am sorry that you have yet to receive a response to the below FOI that you submitted.

I have contacted North Yorkshire Police to request an update and for someone to get in contact with you as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Holly

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Civil Disclosure,

Good morning

Thank you for your below email.

Please accept our apologies that we haven’t yet responded to your FOI request ref 0764.2019-20. We are waiting for a response from another business area will respond as soon as we can.

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