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", ]
#> Simple feature collection with 1 feature and 2 fields
#> geometry type:  MULTIPOLYGON
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: 388662.6 ymin: 402593.5 xmax: 452991.6 ymax: 451901.4
#> epsg (SRID):    27700
#> proj4string:    +proj=tmerc +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-2 +k=0.9996012717 +x_0=400000 +y_0=-100000 +ellps=airy +towgs84=446.448,-125.157,542.06,0.15,0.247,0.842,-20.489 +units=m +no_defs
#> # A tibble: 1 x 3
#>   pfa16cd   pfa16nm                                                     geometry
#>   <chr>     <chr>                                             <MULTIPOLYGON [m]>
#> 1 E23000010 West Yorks… (((408054.7 451818.9, 408045.8 450915.7, 408358.1 44989…
sf:::plot.sf(police_boundaries)