Complaints
There were 710 complaint cases for Surrey Police in 2009/10. This is a 206% change on the 2003/04 figure. This is the second highest increase (after Northamptonshire) of all 43 forces in England and Wales. For comparison, the average change across forces in England and Wales over the same period was 113%.
In 2012, an incident arose with a farm confronting poachers and being shot at with a .22 rifle. After phoning the police. It took the police an hour to arrive. Furthermore only two unarmed police turned up to deal with the incident. Surrey police claimed that they followed the correct protocol. Surrey said that the delay was due to the call being relayed to another force. They also claimed that the phone call said only one shot had been fired. Apparently this meant they did not have to make it such a high priority.
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