Detailed Police Force Area boundaries - England and Wales

Abstract

Dataset showing the detailed extents of 44 police force areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. zip file of 44 individual KML files was downloaded from http://data.gov.uk/dataset/police-force-boundaries-england-and-wales.

ogr2ogr was used to append the 44 individual KML files into a single shapefile dataset and reproject the features to british national grid. Labels were added to the features by editing the resultant shapefile attribute table in QGIS.

Note: a polygon for Northern Ireland is also included from the source KML but it`s purely an approximate footprint. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2014-02-17 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-22.