FARM NEWS 5
• FEB/MAR 2018
POLICE, CPS AND NFU JOIN FORCES
TO COMBAT HARE COURSING
Thirty-one police forces, representing over 90% of forces facing issues with hare coursing in England and Wales, and
the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) join the NFU as efforts are ramped up to rid the countryside of hare coursing.
The NFU stressed the need for
a dedicated rural police team in
steadily in recent years. Cambridge- each force to better tackle rural
shire, one of the worst counties
crime. It is also calling for the
affected, reported nearly a 40 per
Government to form a cross-de-
cent rise in reported incidents from
partmental rural crime task force
1184 cases in 2016 to 1634 in 2017.
to address the failures in dealing
with rural crime.
Representatives from the police
The NFU is
and CPS were told how hare
hearing from
coursing, which some police forc-
es have linked to organised crime,
farmers that there
sees farmers facing threatening
have been dramatic behaviour, violence and intimida-
tion.
increases in all
The NFU has found that this
rural 69945
crime
threatening
behaviour has led
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‘ there needs to
THE illegal activity has increased
be robust action
against hare
courses to end
this blight on our
countryside
’
‘
’
to a culture of underreporting to
police, meaning the true scale of
hare coursing on rural areas may
not be known.
NFU Deputy President Minette
Batters said: “The NFU is hearing
from farmers that there have been
dramatic increases in all rural
crime, but hare coursing in par-
ticular is causing incredible cost
and damage to farm businesses.
“It is critical for farm businesses
that there is consistency in both
policing and sentencing and the
NFU will continue to push for this
as the path forward.
“There needs to be robust ac-
tion against hare coursers to end
this blight on our countryside and
ensure that farmers do not contin-
ue to be targeted by criminals.”
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