Regulated Industry Blandford Waste Team

&Area Enforcement Team

Names: John Wiles Ian Percy

Job titles: Acting Team Leader Area Enforcement Officer

Incident Investigation &

Enforcement

Investigation

Warranted Officers

Giving the Caution

PACE Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Codes A-H

Code B Code of practice for searches of premises

Code E Code of practice on audio recording interviews with suspects.

Enforcement & Prosecution Policy

All Enforcement and Prosecution must be measured against a policy which also takes into account:Environmental EffectNature of OffenceFinancial ImplicationImpact on Legitimate BusinessDeterrent EffectIntentHistoryAttitudeOffenders Personal CircumstancesForeseeability

Gathering Evidence

Enter Premises

Take Photographs, Samples, Measurements,

Seize Items.

Take Witness Statements

Provide your Witness Statement (use of Pocket Book)

Interview Suspected Offender(s)

Water Pollution Sample Evidence

Water Pollution Test Evidence

Water Pollution Test Reading Evidence

YSI 6600V2 Sonde & Telemetry

Ammonium & Dissolved Oxygen d/s a Diary showing dry & wet weather pollution events

Pollution events - dissolved oxygen, ammonium & turbidity

Ammonium & Turbidity spikes

Dissolved Oxygen

Take Witness Statement(s)

Formally Interview Suspected Offender(s)

Case File Preparation

Case Management System Entry (inter link NIRS CCS)

Proposed Charges

Executive Summary

Other Information

Costs of Investigation

Statements

Documentary Exhibits

Unused Material

Illegal Scrap Yard

Illegal Deposit of Controlled Waste

Illegal Waste Transfer Station

Water Pollution Source Photographic Evidence

Seized Illegal Elver Nets

Modernising Enforcement and Intelligence

Intelligence

EnforcementPrevention

Bichard Inquiry

The inquiry opened on 13 January 2004.

The findings of the Bichard Inquiry were published in June 2004.

Humberside and Cambridgeshire police forces were heavily criticised for their failings in maintaining intelligence records on Ian Huntley.

Information & Intelligence

Information

“unevaluated material of every description that when processed can

result in the production of intelligence.”

Intelligence

“information that has now been evaluated and put into context.”

It has a PROVENANCEPROVENANCE

How do you know this?Where did it originate?Who told you?Why did they tell you?When did they tell you?Who else is aware of the information?How do they know?Where were you told?What was said?

Information & Intelligence

Information

Humpty Dumpty fell off a wall and can’t be put back together again.

Intelligence

Humpty Dumpty was sitting on a wall and fell off. The source of this information is unknown. There are significant gaps here. We don’t know if this is true.

Humpty Dumpty can’t be put back together again. This was witnessed by all the King’s horses and all the King’s men. They are a trusted source. This is known to be true.

Information & IntelligenceWhy do we need a Provenance?

How do you know this?Where did it originate?Who told you?Why did they tell you?When did they tell you?Who else is aware of the information?How do they know?Where were you told?What was said?

Information & IntelligenceWhen 5x5x5 is not 125

SOURCESOURCEA – ALWAYS RELIABLEB – MOSTLY RELIABLEC – SOMETIMES RELIABLED – UNRELIABLEE – UNTESTED SOURCE

INFORMATIONINFORMATION1 – KNOWN TO BE TRUE WITHOUT RESERVATION2 – THE INFORMATION IS KNOWN PERSONALLY BY THE SOURCE BUT NOT TO THE PERSON REPORTING3 – THE INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWN PERSONALLY TO THE SOURCE BUT CAN BE CORROBORATED BY OTHER INFORMATION4 – THE INFORMATION CANNOT BE JUDGED5 – SUSPECTED TO BE FALSE

HANDLING / DISSEMINATIONHANDLING / DISSEMINATION1 – Permits dissemination within the UK Police service AND to other law enforcement agencies2 – Permits dissemination to UK non-prosecuting agencies3 – Permits dissemination to non EEA foreign law enforcement agencies4 – Permits dissemination within originating agency. Specify internal recipient (s)5 - Permits dissemination but receiving agency to observe specified conditions

Information/Intelligence Sources There are so many, but to name a few…..

Internal systems – IWS, CCS etc

Contacts with Fire Service

Conversations with clients

Observations made whilst conducting a site visit

Large landowner groups

Google

NCSNewspaper reportsNotebooks

letters

E-mails

Network or Association Chart

Investigations & Intelligence

IWS discovered containing a range of items including tyres, car batteries, garden waste and some WEEE.

Incident comes in as report on NIRS with full reporter details

You’ll deal with the incident as usual

…BUT…

Whilst you are there you are approached by a sweet little old lady out walking her prize Pomeranians FiFi and Sweetums. She tells you it’s such a shame and an awful mess. She bets it was that scallywag she saw in a white van the other day with the back doors open. It was parked just there and had something like Coopers Clarence on the side.

Surveillance

A Few of the Benefits…To be equipped with all available information (Hostile Sites).

To be targeted in our approach to environmental crime and offenders.

To identify emerging issues before they become a problem.

To provide new lines of enquiry for ongoing investigations.

To increase the communication between teams and regions.

Better Partnership working – NIM is universal.

Lawful collecting, storing and dissemination of information (DP etc.).

To take a threat assessed approach to issues and seek to resolve them by understanding the root causes

To build and manage organisational memory for the benefit of everyone.

Illegal Waste Tyre Disposal

Result

6 individuals and 2 companies interviewed

5 individuals pleaded guilty at court

Stopped 96,000 tyres going to Vietnam

Illegal waste activity cost de-frauded farmer £70,000 in clear-up costs.

Bank left to clear 90,000 tyres at £150,000 when company declared itself bankrupt

Trans-frontier Shipment of Waste

Illegal Exports

Illegal Trans-frontier Shipment of Waste

Ghana

Tincan, Nigeria

The Result

Stopped illegal waste exports to Nigeria

£8,000 paid to dispose of waste correctly

1 illegal over-stayer arrested by Police and deported to Nigeria

1 male arrested for failing to answer bail for fraud and deception offences

Intelligence gained and shared with Borders Agency, Metropolitan Police and Customs

Illegal Waste Site - BRYCE

The Result

10 people arrested

8 people pleaded Guilty at Crown Court

1 Cautioned

1 person dismissed – no evidence offered

Fines, costs and Proceeds of Crime £472,000

Stolen property recovered

Local Intelligence gained

Reassurance to local community

ANY Questions