Wildlife Crime Should Not Be Sidelined.UK
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- mottagare: The Home Secretary UK
More than 100 wildlife organisations in the UK,led by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB),have called for a review,of how the police service's in England ,Wales and Northern Ireland protect the nations animals and plants.At present thousands who break the law remain at unpunished.This is against a backdrop of an increase in internet sales of wildlife including animals,birds and birds eggs for instance and increase in some areas of the poisoning of birds,attacks on badgers etc.
Currently services are patchy in Britain,in the area's of 1) how reported crimes are dealt with, 2) minimum national standards for dealing with wildlife crime, 3) what actually constitutes a wildlife crime .Additionally there is a shortage in specialist wildlife officers across these Britain (excluding Scotland which carried out it's own review of services in 2007).
We are calling on the UK Home Secretary's office to conduct a review of services,with the aim of providing:
1)An increase in specialist officers 2)Improved training for all police officers, regarding awareness of wildlife crime 3)Clear minimum standards of investigation for all police forces.4)National agreement as to what constitutes a wildlife crime 5)A requirement for all regional police forces in England,Northern Ireland and Wales to send statistics on wildlife crime,to the Home Office as part of the police forces official statistics,as they do with other crimes such as burglary.
Dear Home Secretary we the undersigned,politely ask that our proposals for improved wildlife protection,across the UK be considered.
We beleive that these are sensible requests,that will create consistency in how wildlife crimes are dealt with across England,Wales and Northern Ireland.
Thank you for your consideration of these proposals.
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