Anglia Farmer


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OPINION Johann Tasker


Police must fight harder against rural crime


tipping or hare-coursing. Or worse. All too often criminals view farms as easy-


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pickings. The situation is so bad that more than two-thirds of farmers fell victim to rural crime last year in the last year alone, according to the latest fi gures from the National Rural Crime Network. Some 69% of growers and livestock producers


were targeted by criminals during the past 12 months, according to the network’s latest National Rural Crime Survey. Similarly, 60% of farmers are worried about becoming a victim of crime in the future. In some parts of the countryside, criminals


know they won’t be spotted. Police response times are sometimes so slow that by the time an offi cer attends a crime scene, the perpetrator has long disappeared – if the local constabulary manages to turns up at all. Police resources are so overstretched that


offenders stand little chance of getting caught. In fact, many farmers and other rural residents don’t bother reporting crime because of the


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t’s hard to think of anyone in farming unaffected by crime. We all know someone who has been a victim of farm theft, or fl y-


perception that all police do is issue a crime reference number. Yet reporting incidents is important – no


matter how trivial the offence. Only by doing so will the police stand a chance of receiving the resources necessary to combat what is, for many farmers, an increasingly serious problem. Police too have a big part to play. All too


often, offi cers have little knowledge of the law when it comes to agriculture – seldom realising, for example, that they can request movement licences to check whether livestock are being stolen or legitimately transported. Last month, the National Police Chiefs


Council launched its rural affairs manifesto outlining its priorities to combat crime in the countryside. These priorities include targeting farm theft, livestock offences, fl y-tipping, poaching, hare coursing and equine crime. It is easy to say that actions speak louder than


words – and it is true that an ongoing lack of resources means police face their own challenges. But if police chiefs are being serious, they must start to make a real and sustained effort when it comes to reducing rural crime. Johann Tasker, Editor


Vol 38 • No 8 • August 2018


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