Hopes Police rethink their approach to future restructures, after dumping a proposal for rural Canterbury

It would've replaced some permanent officers with staff working at 24/7 hubs in Rolleston and Rangiora.

Many of the thousand submissions supported the idea, but it was rejected by affected communities.

Federated Farmers' Provincial President Karl Dean says the plan was never in rural communities' best interests.

But he says they're not denying there's a need for more Police in the areas that have dramatically grown in the last decade.