The part of the Peak District that i rove about isn’t all that different to many rural parts of the UK …. except for ‘what lies over the hill’ …
People. >800,000 of them minutes away in Sheffield and about 19 million of them within one hour.
So as well as everything that ‘normally’ goes off in the dark there are a lot of incidences of criminal activity against both wildlife and rural property. This ranges from the opportunistic (often on SurRon electric motorbikes) through to the use of drones and other technology by organised criminal gangs.
The latest strategy from the NPCC illuminates the various types of activity and outlines policing measures to combat wildlife and rural crime.
Read it here