Rural police teams receive funding boost

Officers tackling crime in rural areas across Lancashire have received £8,500 in funding to deter thieves.

Through Police and Crime Commissioner Andrew Snowden’s Safer Lancashire Neighbourhoods Fund, the team, which covers rural areas of Preston, Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire applied for funding to purchase additional state-of-the-art marking equipment.

The funding has provided three new Pryor security marking machines which officers will use to mark vehicles, machinery and equipment in rural communities, making them less attractive to thieves and also enabling them to be identified should they be stolen and later recovered.