“Police, camera, no appropriate licence to be at raptor nest” might be a better title for the puff piece we’ve just received from colleagues down South – Chris Visser of the Lancashire Evening Post interviewing Duncan Thomas, Police Wildlife Liaison Officer and saviour of our planet – or at least the Lancashire bit of it, if the article is to be believed. http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Police-protection-of-wildlife.5532271.jp
Hello, Natural England – that photograph accompanying the article: breach of police licence conditions or what? Necessary visit? Is there a crime going on there (apart from the obvious)? Bona fide raptor workers would be severely taken to task for showboating like that, and rightly so too.
Continue reading When we practice to deceive …
Let me tell you a tale. ‘When I were a lad’, I had respect for the law – mainly in the shape of the village bobby. The one in my village only had one eye, so if you were up to no good, it was best to keep on the right side of him – or maybe it was the left - I can’t remember, it was a long time ago.
Anyhow, the principle was: coppers good – uphold the law. Criminals bad – deserve all they get.
Later on in life I found that it wasn’t that clear-cut. For example, at a murder trial I watched policeman after policeman attest under oath they had lost their notebooks with the details of their (allegedly) botched investigation into my sister-in-law’s death. This didn’t go down at all well with the police who were pulling out all the stops to prosecute the accused. I’m sure many of you reading this will have had at least second-hand experience of bad policing though, so let’s move on. Continue reading Let’s persecute the conservationists – Part 1
“Police, camera, no appropriate licence to be at raptor nest” might be a better title for the puff piece we’ve just received from colleagues down South – Chris Visser of the Lancashire Evening Post interviewing Duncan Thomas, Police Wildlife Liaison Officer and saviour of our planet – or at least the Lancashire bit of it, if the article is to be believed. http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Police-protection-of-wildlife.5532271.jp
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