Essex Police’s rural engagement officers are keen to remind would-be hare coursers and poachers they are not welcome

A METAL detectorist who tried to steal from a nationally significant Iron Age and Roman site in Colchester has sparked a warning.

One of the strategy's key objectives is tackling domestic abuse

Thames Valley Police's rural crime taskforce reported attending the scene of the ongoing crime on Tuesday night, March 7.

Two poachers have been disqualified from keeping dogs for three years in what is believed to be the first use of new powers introduced last year following pressure by rural campaigners.

A FLY tipper who dumped a “disgraceful” amount of household waste in a beauty spot is being hunted by an infuriated councillor.

Two men have been banned from owning or keeping dogs for three years under new legislative powers designed to target poachers.

Essex Police's distinctive, on-loan New Holland T6 tractor will attend numerous country shows across the county to help combat the scourge of rural crime.

Our Rural Engagement Team have been busy helping to keep our rural roads safe by seizing uninsured vehicles and recovering stolen vehicles to reunite with their owners.

A distinctive, on-loan New Holland T6 tractor has joined Essex Police to help drive the reduction of crime in the county's rural communities.

Together with Hertfordshire, Kent and Norfolk, the seven forces in the Eastern Region pledged a year ago to work across policing borders and launched Operation Galileo to do exactly that.

Officers from our Rural Engagement Team today, Saturday 15 October 2022, stopped three people in the Uttlesford District on suspicion of trespassing in pursuit of game.

The court heard they each allegedly took a basket with 20 bottles of milk to a value of £38 and emptied their contents on to goods and the carpet at the store.

The team regularly patrol our rural road network and carry out road safety speed checks while they are doing so. The majority of vehicles seized in the past nine months – 77 – have been cars and vans found to be uninsured.

PC Paul Glensman, one of the officers who found the stolen equipment, said: “Plant equipment is an expensive investment for any business. To have it stolen is a devastating loss for any company and it has a massive impact on any business activity.