Detailed Police Force Area boundaries - England and Wales

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.