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Latest news in Yorkshire: November 14, 2018 10:36:09 AM
MORE than 50 officers and police staff ploughed into villages to tackle
rural crime as part of a day of action – seizing vehicles, rifles and
drugs.
In Rotherham, officers stopped and searched three vehicles and four
people, breathalysed two others and issued a section 59 police reform
act notice last Thursday as part of Operation Dunlin – a day of action
targeting rural crime across the county.
Throughout the day, officers carried out proactive warrants for badger
baiting and patrolled rural areas across, targeting theft and disrupting
poaching activity.
Across the county, 21 vehicles and 25 people were stopped and searched,
two vehicles were seized for driving offences, two air rifles were
seized for destruction, two people were reported on summons in relation
to cannabis and ecstasy seized and one knife was recovered.
In Rotherham, two vehicles were recovered with no insurance, one of
which was being driven by a man with no licence who also had equipment,
which could be used to syphon diesel.
In Doncaster, officers executed a warrant at an address in Church
Street, Stainforth, supported by Doncaster Tasking Team and the National
Wildlife Crime Unit. The warrant was granted under the Wildlife and
Countryside Act, following posts on Facebook relating to badger baiting.
Officers located items, which featured in the posts. They also
discovered four cannabis plants in the loft and that the electricity
metre had been bypassed.
Other results included a man being reported on summons by the off-road
team in Tickhill for possessing a knife and an ecstasy tablet and two
loaded rifles being handed over for destruction by two men who were
caught carrying out pest control.
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News source: rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk