Monday 16 September 2013

DAY 30: Aylesbury Vale officers work with Northants Police in cross-border operation

Neighbourhood officers in Aylesbury Vale worked with Northamptonshire on Friday (13/9) in a cross-border ANPR operation. It isn’t uncommon for rural crime offenders to cross County borders to commit these crimes (see the blog post about the stolen trailer found belonging to someone in Surrey!). This can make it harder to pin down the perpetrators and find the stolen items. Working with other police forces and sharing intelligence helps to tackle these types of crimes on a much larger scale!
During the operation, 28 vehicles were stopped and dealt with but no arrests made.
Meanwhile, the PCSOs and neighbourhood PCs went to Newton Longville in an attempt to sign up the entire village to Thames Valley Alerts. They didn’t do badly with 150 houses signed up by the end of the day.
On a mission to sign up the whole village
Neighbourhood team at Newton Longville village hall
The local school’s liaison officer went along to John Colet School in Wendover to talk to the students about wildlife crime.
An element of wildlife crime the TVP wildlife officers investigate is the trade of endangered species and taxidermy offences which includes the trade of birds of prey eggs, reptile skins and shells and ivory (see the massive elephant tusk worth £30,000!)
All the stuff the wildlife officers’ use for their talks and displays has been seized, most likely from airports across the Country, and are used for educational purposes.

A (very heavy) elephant tusk, tortoise shell and hippo tusk!


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