Regulated Industry Blandford Waste Team & Area Enforcement Team

2. Regulated Industry Blandford Waste Team&Area Enforcement Team Names: John Wiles Ian Percy Job titles: Acting Team Leader Area Enforcement Officer

3. Incident Investigation & Enforcement

4. 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.

5. Enforcement & Prosecution Policy All Enforcement and Prosecution must be measured against a policy which also takes into account: • Environmental Effect • Nature of Offence • Financial Implication • Impact on Legitimate Business • Deterrent Effect • Intent • History • Attitude • Offenders Personal Circumstances • Foreseeability

6. 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)

7. Water Pollution Sample Evidence

8. Water Pollution Test Evidence

9. Water Pollution Test Reading Evidence

10. YSI 6600V2 Sonde & Telemetry

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

12. Pollution events - dissolved oxygen, ammonium & turbidity Dissolved Oxygen Ammonium & Turbidity spikes

13. Take Witness Statement(s)

14. Formally Interview Suspected Offender(s)

15. 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

16. Illegal Scrap Yard

17. Illegal Deposit of Controlled Waste

18. Illegal Waste Transfer Station

20. Water Pollution Source Photographic Evidence

21. Seized Illegal Elver Nets

22. Modernising Enforcement and Intelligence

23. 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.

24. Information & Intelligence Intelligence “information that has now been evaluated and put into context.” It has 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 “unevaluated material of every description that when processed can result in the production of intelligence.”

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

26. Information & Intelligence Why 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?

27. Information & Intelligence When 5x5x5 is not 125 SOURCE A – ALWAYS RELIABLE B – MOSTLY RELIABLE C – SOMETIMES RELIABLE D – UNRELIABLE E – UNTESTED SOURCE INFORMATION 1 – KNOWN TO BE TRUE WITHOUT RESERVATION 2 – THE INFORMATION IS KNOWN PERSONALLY BY THE SOURCE BUT NOT TO THE PERSON REPORTING 3 – THE INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWN PERSONALLY TO THE SOURCE BUT CAN BE CORROBORATED BY OTHER INFORMATION 4 – THE INFORMATION CANNOT BE JUDGED 5 – SUSPECTED TO BE FALSE HANDLING / DISSEMINATION 1 – Permits dissemination within the UK Police service AND to other law enforcement agencies 2 – Permits dissemination to UK non-prosecuting agencies 3 – Permits dissemination to non EEA foreign law enforcement agencies 4 – Permits dissemination within originating agency. Specify internal recipient (s) 5 - Permits dissemination but receiving agency to observe specified conditions

28. Information/Intelligence Sources There are so many, but to name a few….. letters Observations made whilst conducting a site visit Contacts with Fire Service E-mails Internal systems – IWS, CCS etc Google Conversations with clients Large landowner groups NCS Newspaper reports Notebooks

29. Network or Association Chart

30. 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. Investigations & Intelligence

31. Surveillance

32. 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.

33. Illegal Waste Tyre Disposal

34. 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

35. Trans-frontier Shipment of Waste

36. Illegal Exports

37. Illegal Trans-frontier Shipment of Waste

38. Ghana

39. Tincan, Nigeria

40. 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

41. Illegal Waste Site - BRYCE

45. 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

46. ANY Questions