I just checked and it kooks like the course is full. I was thinking of doing it but the shooting show is on a day or so later and I am booked to spend money in there.
Available: Humane dispatch course( Hampshire )
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cookingfat
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No the DMQ HAD award does not give you that authority, If the candidate is accepted after vetting and police run training then the constabulary gives you that authorisation as you are representing them when called out, you are also covered by there insurance as well as your BASC,NGO,BDS insurance.
This only applies to Hampshire
Just tagging on the end of this thread - seemed as good a place as any.
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catc...eridian-west-from-thursday-30th-april/7m2b3qp
Skip to 0:04:49 for a section on road deer collisions, along with a celebrity feature at 0:06:45...
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catc...eridian-west-from-thursday-30th-april/7m2b3qp
Skip to 0:04:49 for a section on road deer collisions, along with a celebrity feature at 0:06:45...
EMcC
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When I first took on the job of volunteer to attend RTA's in the mid eighties there where no courses but I was considered experienced enough to be accepted and during all the years I did the job I never felt the need for any training.
I have recently withdrawn my offer as age, I'm now in my eighties, and health has taken it's toll.
Incidentally although I am based in Wiltshire I was sometimes called to attend RTA's in Hampshire on the A303 as far as the forest the other side of Andover and as far as the area not far from Barton Stacy.
That indicated to me that there was a shortage of volunteers at that time both in Wilts and Hants.
I have recently withdrawn my offer as age, I'm now in my eighties, and health has taken it's toll.
Incidentally although I am based in Wiltshire I was sometimes called to attend RTA's in Hampshire on the A303 as far as the forest the other side of Andover and as far as the area not far from Barton Stacy.
That indicated to me that there was a shortage of volunteers at that time both in Wilts and Hants.
cookingfat
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Hi Ed,
Like you I have been doing RTA's for Wilts and Hants police for a long time ( early 80's ) but todays roads are a very different place and much more dangerous place with many more cars, there has never been so deer as there are at the moment, any more urban deer now and all the problems that come with them.
Many stalkers have the experience and knowhow to deal with deer that are involved with RTA's but its the Safety of your self and others, Emotional, Physical and Reputational risks that much of the training is now taken up with.
We live in a very different world today!
Saracen666
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Out of curiosity, what are you guys using to dispatch the deer ; shotgun, pistol, rifle?
Shotgun is the preferred option.
EMcC
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I have been doing it up until recently so I know about the massive increase in traffic on the roads Tony, it is nothing new to me. The area I mentioned earlier was a stretch of the A303 not far from Harewood Forest and involved Fallow. I wasn't aware of the RTA/HAD callout system being founded before the initial brief by Wilts Police, they did emphasie that it was something new due to the increas in Deer fatalitie on roads, in the mid eighties so did Hants start earlier ? If it did, I'm surprised I was called to incidents in Hants.
cookingfat
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Ed
TVP have taken onboard the Hants model and many of there HAD's have now done the DMQ course and passed the police assessment and are now operational volunteers,
I went to Police HQ at Devizes a couple of weeks with others who are helping Wilts set up there scheme again, so hopefully they will be up and running again soon after some CPD and more training for any new guys that come on board.
But as with most things within the police it takes time.
bottletopbill
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Kent/Met are doing this with armed response crews so it feels i did my course for nothing.
But it was well worth my cost and diesel as i enjoyed the course
So if you want to do a course go for it.
Other's may not want to attend a course
It is your choice
But it was well worth my cost and diesel as i enjoyed the course
So if you want to do a course go for it.
Other's may not want to attend a course
It is your choice
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Bill did you sit and watch slide show pictures videos wade through paper work, was there any "hands on practical " demos even with a prop rifle/shotgun/pistol ?
bottletopbill
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Tim No this was classroom only and a walk and talk in a deer park.
No use of firearms were allowed in class teacher said
No use of firearms were allowed in class teacher said
Saracen666
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No discharging your 
in the classroom 
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in the classroom .
So no practical just from a book ? How were you expected to learn from a book or cornflakes packet.
Sound like pay and get a bit of paper...
cookingfat
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I do know that Essex contacted the national lead for police HAD’s because they have spent a lot of money last year on deploying AR units to deal with RTA’s! And in the current light of things going on around the country the AR officers should be doing other things.
Experienced and well trained volunteers should be doing this.
bottletopbill
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With the number of issues we have in Britain all officer's are needed on the front line.
I live in Sidcup area the Met have a part time station for officer's you can see them in the BP garage.
I live in Sidcup area the Met have a part time station for officer's you can see them in the BP garage.
Saracen666
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My question is why is there no practical assessment as close quarters despatch on these courses? as there is much more involved close up, having shot a lot of snared foxes to large red stags/fallow bucks in deep ditches. Then sitting in a class room and walking around a deer park there is no hands on.
Why is this please?
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Saracen666
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That's a very good point. If you can't prove yourself in a practical scenario, panic and confusion can arise ; not saying it will, but the scenario needs to be physically played out.
This was quite rightly done on my RCO's course years ago.
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