.. a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen...
         -- Warren v. District of Columbia, 444 A.2d 1 (D.C. App.181)

I live in a county that comprises 1,147.46 square miles (2,971.9 km²). Great Britain comprises about 229,848 km² (88,744.8 sq miles). GB has about 60,000,000 people; Bannock County has about 80,000. Our population density is about 79 per square mile (most of the population is concentrated in Pocatello/Chubbuck, adjacent cities); the population density of Great Britain is about 717 per square mile. The Sheriff's Department has about 120 people on the staff, this includes jailers, dispatchers, and others who are not out patrolling.

Granted, the cities and towns have varying numbers of police officers and the Idaho State Police are also around. But these are limited in their jurisdictions -- only in "hot pursuit" or during a "mutual aid" situation can they cross their boundaries.

Nearly everyone is law-abiding; I doubt that they are less so than other, similar areas in the US or the UK.

But there is A LOT of space between people, and it can take the cops quite some time to get to you.

This is not an apologia, just a statement of facts here in the US.