Nine police forces join together in one of the biggest rural crime crackdowns of its kind in the UK
Date of alert:
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Crime Ref:
Force:
Northumbria Police
Nine police forces have joined together in one of the biggest rural crime crackdowns of its kind in the UK.
Northumbria Police has teamed up with Forces across the North of England in a joint strike against cross-border poachers.
Significant work has already been undertaken under the banner of Operation Hawkeye to help protect rural communities and target transient criminals who travel large distances between counties to commit crime.
And that work has been boosted by the creation of a region-wide Community Protection Notice (CPN) which will see all nine Forces work as one to prosecute poachers and rural offenders.
The move will hand police and the courts significantly greater powers to combat and prosecute serial cross-border criminals who breach their CPN conditions by repeatedly targeting rural victims.
