North Yorkshire Police plan new hubs to cut rural response times

New police hubs could be introduced in more rural areas in North Yorkshire in order to improve response times, according to a senior officer.

Last year the force said it averaged 12 minutes in rural locations for immediate incidents and just over eight minutes in urban areas.

Ch Supt Catherine Clarke said the force "should be responding as equally as we can across the county".
It comes after concerns from people in rural areas about a lack of officers.

Speaking at a council meeting, Ch Supt Clarke said the force was examining a vast bank of data as part of an ongoing project to understand its response times to different types of incidents.