Stolen

[Dunwaters]

Sorry, I don’t quite understand your question?
Kindest regards, Olaf

The Gardai here will not enter a halting site without backup.
You seem to have a similar problem.

 

[JH83]

The Gardai here will not enter a halting site without backup.
You seem to have a similar problem.

I’m sure. My neck of the woods is well known for a high traveller population, Fury lives close by, but the police can go onto any site unchallenged. But I appreciate area to area this can be very different, depending on many factors-not least how the relationship has been traditionally managed. You need to hold your ground, which I can tell you is not easy.

The truth of policing is that numbers of cops on the street are still very low and staff turnover is at an all time high. Throw into the equation the press demonisation of them, you have a very woke approach to recruitment which isn’t generating the kind of cops that waltz into a site looking for stolen items-if you catch my drift on this.

Despite this clearly some forces are doing really well getting stolen farm machinery back so folks making idiotic blanket statements don’t reflect the reality for many.

 

[Olaf]

The Gardai here will not enter a halting site without backup.
You seem to have a similar problem.

Ah, i See, sorry, i didn’t originally understand what you meant. That’s pretty bad isn’t it. What made me laugh last year was I saw in the German news that there had been a large gathering of traveling folk in Germany. They were interviewing the locals in the effected are and they just couldn’t comprehend how people ‘visitors’ could behave without respect for anyone or anything in the area. They then interviewed a few of tye ‘visitor’s’ who were all drunk in a field of rubbish and crap. One of them said in a distinctly typical accent that they were just there to f##k the local women ,drink the local alcohol and fight the local men and they would leave once they were bored so they meant no harm and should be left in peace to get on with their holiday.
Unfortunately for them the German Police don’t treat that sort of behaviour with quite the same kind and gentlemanly way as some other countries law enforcement officers do. After they had ‘chosen’ to move on they interviewed a local official in charge of the clean up operation and it was costing the local community thousands of € just to take the rubbish away. He exclaimed how he just couldn’t understand how some people could generate so much rubbish in such a short period of time over a week or two. He then said that while people wouldn’t believe it , that they had not only dumped rubbish , but they had not even sorted it into the correct category’s ready
for recycling ! They had just thrown rubbish out of their windows and left it there! Left it for someone else to deal with! Unbelievable.

Kindest regards, Olaf

 

[NickJ]

All I can say is we are very lucky with the police here in rural Lancashire, our local poachers/travelling thieves take themselves up to Cumbria for a free reign!