The Leeds unit is on the frontline in the war against waste-dumping
Coun Mohammed Rafique, right, with members of Leeds City Council's new serious environmental crime unit. Picture: Local Democracy Reporting Service
“We take more robust action in the sense we don’t necessarily look for quick wins. We build cases and we spend time gathering evidence and intelligence so that we can build a stronger case for when we go to court. “The condition of the vehicle will tell you quite a lot,” Chris explains, when asked what kind of tell-tale signs he’ll look for on these patrols.“There are cage type vehicles that have nets on too – anything like that we might stop.”
“Over last 12 to 18 months, the numbers in Leeds are coming down, which is somewhat against the national trajectory, with numbers in some core cities having gone up.Among the other tools that the serious environmental crime team is planning to use is test purchases, where undercover officers will ask fly-tipping suspects to take their waste.But as always, the biggest source of intelligence is the people who witness these acts of environmental vandalism.
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