Seacroft unwanted guests
There's been reporting on the local regional news both paper website, radio & TV about disturbances in & around Cromer over the weekend. Seacroft site was named as somewhere that had to call police in emergency. Hope all those staying at this site & the wardens were not affected by the unwanted guests that reportedly arrived en mass at the clubhouse facilities.
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The real problem here is that our govt has given incredible rights to invade land, to pitch caravans where if we did it we would feel the full weight of the law, but they can do it with impunity!
Not on! And whereas where I as the local rural Sgt in the Mid seventies would have had them on their way in a few days, my colleagues of today will spend most of their time trying to explain why they are not taking any action! As much use as a Chocolate Fire Guard!
The Law is the law! If chains and locks are destroyed by the use of a chain cropper, the excuse about failing to take any action because no one can identify the culprit is a bit weak. What happened to the duty to investigate the crime? Arrest the Bl**DY lot, hold them until someone comes clean! Do your duty! Thats what I did! And they moved on!
TF
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How many of them are taxed and insured. Perhaps that would be the route to explore.
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Passed a convoy of caravans on the M62 a couple of months ago, most of the vans weren't displaying number plates and others had number plates that didn't match the car, You can bet if I forgot to change my number plate or ran without one I would be hauled ASAP.
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Again, The current Police Policy appears to allow travellers to get away with practically everything. But prosecute the law abiding public for doing the same thing.
I accept that minority groups like genuine Romany's are dedicated to a nomadic way of life. But 90% of the travellers today are not Romanies, but just groups of people who live in caravans, do cheap but poor tarmacking jobs or tree cutting, leaving rubbish strewn about where they have been staying. And pay no taxes at all! Its time for the Govt to stop hiding behind ridiculous "Human Rights" legislation and start to consider the rights of the law abiding majority a bit more!
Its also time for the Police to get real, and realise that the public are rapidly getting fed up with their unwillingness to take action against Travellers who break the law!
TF
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Couldn't agree more TF. The police come over as weak and hand wringing. I am savagely angry when I hear of the disruption to ordinary folks lives by these arrogant, thoughtless hooligans- because that's what they are. They use intimidation to get what they want all the time and very few can stand up to them. Seacroft Wardens must have been terrified with that lot turning up and demanding entry and had they got it, they would have stayed there at no cost you can bet. I have a friend in Sheringham and I know a little of what these louts did- if we did it, as you say, our feet wouldn't touch. When are our police going to start acting like police officers and face these criminals down??
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I think if I was in a job that is so tied up with (, as seems the case these days)the lack of support from all directions when trying to carry out my duties then I think most would suffer from what you mention,or find another job that might be less problematic
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I don't think the police here can be under resourced when they can turn out 9+ officers for the parade for the village Scarecrow Festival. I could only count the ones at the start area but there must have been even more to stop traffic at the other end of the village.
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Padlocked and chained gates are no problem or restriction for travellers. As TF say, they just cut them off. These are the same people that break into fire stations and steal the hydraulic cutters used for rescuing crash victims and saving lives so they can use them committing crime like cutting off hitchlocks etc!! You don't get any lower than that, and if they could, they would. I'm afraid that unless we, as a country, start to push back hard against these thugs, they will just become emboldened even more. The amount of stolen Caravans found on their sites is frightening. I should know. Mine was one of them!
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It's not the boots on the ground officers who don't uphold the law. They want to do the work, but their senior management are so terrified of the over zealous PC lobby and their "tricky dicky" lawyers that they are telling their troops to back off.
Time for the police Senior management to put enforcing the law of the land first and foremost.
K
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Yes I agree with you Oneputt. Breaking in is a criminal offence but they seem to be completely teflon coated as far as the law is concerned. I read in today's news items on the web of a woman who is giving her field to this shower near a Cambridgeshire village just to get at the villagers!! She obviously has issues with them. With neighbours like that, who needs enemies? She is moving abroad. I hope the local council find some guts and stop this obscenity or it will be another village destroyed by litter, noise and theft.
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