21st October 2022: A Cwmbran man has been ordered to pay a total of £279 after being caught fishing on a private stretch of the River Wye without permission or a valid rod licence. In a joint operation between Natural Resources Wales and Gwent Police, Kyle Moses, of Summerhill, Cwmbran, was seen by officers fishing […]

  An angler from Essex who fished illegally has been ordered by a court to pay out. The amount to be paid is 40 times the amount of money than if he’d just bought a fishing licence. Daniel Churchman, of Dedham, Essex, was caught fishing during the fishing close season on 14 June 2022 at […]

  Two men from Chester, 35-year-old Warren Kelly (29/05/1986) of Sycamore Drive and 58-year-old Andrew Dutton of Clover Place (20/07/1964) have both been given five year criminal behaviour orders (CBOs), after they were convicted of four offences under the Game Act and two offences under the Hunting act, for Hare Coursing in Ormskirk, West Lancashire. […]

Three men accused of committing offences under Section 1 of the Night Poaching Act 1828, pleaded guilty at Northampton Magistrates’ Court. The trio were charged with trespassing on private land for the purpose of catching wildlife after a suspicious van parked near Moonshine Gap in Wellingborough, on December 5 last year, was reported to Northamptonshire Police. […]

A joint initiative to tackle hare coursing across the East of England has led to the first person to be fined for breaching a Community Protection Notice (CPN) served under the scheme. Sydney Samuels, 33, of Oxford Gardens, Maidstone, was handed a £400 fine when he appeared at Medway Magistrates’ Court on 19 May 2022. […]

A joint team including officers from Northumbria Police, RSPCA and the NWCU, executed warrants at two properties Officers from the Northumbria Police Rural Crime Team and Alnwick and Hexham NPT alongside partners from the RSPCA and National Wildlife Crime Unit executed warrants at two addresses, one in Hexham and a second in Longframlington.  The force […]

NWCU welcome Insp Amy Hunter as the new lead for the Poaching Priority Delivery Group in England & Wales Amy Hunter is a Police Inspector from North Yorkshire Police, she is currently the Staff Officer to Chief Constable Lisa Winward and Deputy Chief Constable Phil Cain. Amy started her career with North Yorkshire Police in 2010, […]

An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Police Officer to lead the Poaching Priority Delivery Group for England & Wales: Poaching Priority Delivery Group – Chairperson Required 15th March 2021 An exciting development opportunity has arisen for an Inspector, Chief Inspector or Superintendent to take up the Chair of the Poaching Priority Delivery Group […]

Dedicated rural police officers have secured criminal behaviour orders for three men convicted of hare coursing in Essex after a 17-month investigation. On 13 October 2019, a farmer reported to us that four men with lurcher dogs were walking across his land in West Hanningfield, and were believed to be hare coursing. During the call, […]

Two men were released under investigation after reports of hare coursing near Warminster. Police were called at about 1.15pm on Thursday, February 25 2021 reporting suspicious activity on farmland in the Boyton area. Officers attended and pursued a silver Honda CR-V after it failed to stop. The National Police Air Service (NPAS) assisted and located […]