Police force boundaries in England (2016)

This dataset represents the 43 police forces in England and Wales. These are described on the Wikipedia page. on UK police forces.

Format

An sf data frame

Details

The geographic boundary data were taken from the UK government's official geographic data portal. See http://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/

Note

These were generated using the script in the data-raw directory (misc.Rmd file) in the package's GitHub repo: github.com/ITSLeeds/stats19.

Examples

nrow(police_boundaries)
#> [1] 43
police_boundaries[police_boundaries$pfa16nm == "West Yorkshire", ]
#> old-style crs object detected; please recreate object with a recent sf::st_crs()
#> old-style crs object detected; please recreate object with a recent sf::st_crs()
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 2 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: 388662.6 ymin: 402593.5 xmax: 452991.6 ymax: 451901.4
#> Projected CRS: OSGB36 / British National Grid
#> # A tibble: 1 × 3
#>   pfa16cd   pfa16nm                                                     geometry
#>   <chr>     <chr>                                             <MULTIPOLYGON [m]>
#> 1 E23000010 West Yorkshire (((408054.7 451818.9, 408045.8 450915.7, 408358.1 44…
sf:::plot.sf(police_boundaries)
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