Survey was completed. Surveys are all well and good. The main issue in rural areas is that these are the areas that are hit the most by cuts in police budgets.
From a place not so long ago, when each village would have it's own police officer, we now have police stations not only non-existent in villages, but very much under threat - or already gone in many small towns. The result of this is that it's more than likely that any sort of rural crime that actually gets reported will be investigated (possibly) by an officer whose main work will be policing town estates and Saturday night drunks. Patrols in many rural areas are a fond memory. Speak to people of a certain age in rural areas and they'll tell you who their local police officer was by name. Now you won't hardly get the same one twice.
I have always advocated reporting every crime to the police. So that, however unimportant it may seem, the picture builds up and the police can act on it. However, the police are having to prioritise so much these days that rural issues bear very little importance when compared to the weight of issues the towns and cities have.
This is not really the police's fault. They can only do so much with diminishing resources. However, having a National Rural Crime Network, which will no doubt have important meetings and conduct surveys can only help. Or at least give the impression that it helps!