Poaching crackdown sees offences fall by a third in North Yorkshire
Date of alert:
Monday, 10 October 2022
Crime Ref:
Force:
North Yorkshire Police
A problem-solving approach to tackling rural crime has seen the number of poaching incidents drop by almost a third in the space of a year, a report has revealed.
The report by the office of North Yorkshire and York Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Zoe Metcalfe highlights how since the launch of North Yorkshire Police’s Operation Figaro last year, 241 individuals have received warning letters and 41 have received Criminal Behaviour Warnings.
A further five Criminal Behaviour Notices, which act like an injunction, and a Criminal Behaviour Order have also been issued, alongside “proactive correspondence” to all those issued with notices and warnings to remind them of the conditions they must not breach.
The report, which will be scrutinised by a meeting of the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel on Thursday, states poaching crimes have fallen by 32 per cent from the September to April “poaching season” in 2021 to the same period this year.
The significant cut in poaching comes just a year after the force’s chief inspector of specialist operations announced it had become the force’s number one rural crime issue.