BOOST: Dan St Quintin, Detective Inspector for Safeguarding at Cumbria Police DRUGS crime and antisocial behaviour are among the issues being better targeted as a result of a dramatic expansion in rural policing across Cumbria. Over the last year, dozens of officers have been relocated to rural communities such as Brampton, Longtown, and Keswick, strengthening police links with rural communites. The initiative was funded by Cumbria’s Police and Crime Commissioner Peter McCall through an increase in Council Tax and extra Government funding - part of the so-called Operation Uplift. Cumbria Police recruited 51 more officers in the first phase of the operation,which saw pilot schemes in areas of south Cumbria as well as in Brampton and Longtown.
County policing gets rural boost
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Success as Cumbria police puts more offices back in rural towns
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READERS have given their opinion after it was revealed that dedicated police officers are due to be deployed in a Furness town. New rural officers will be stationed in Ulverston in a scheme bringing extra police to a number of areas in the county. Cumbria Police said officers would come to Ulverston later this year. The expansion, announced in March 2020, resulted in officers who would previously have been deployed from a large, area police station returning to being based out of the towns in which they patrol. The initial two pilot areas were Ambleside and Windermere and Brampton and Longtown.
Police put back on county s rural beat
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