Originally posted by vetran
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You mean local government workers as it's councils who deal with fly tipping on public land. -
Well they deployed MI5 against the boat traffickers and found 50% or more were Albanian. Maybe they will find 80% of fly tippers are from Islington? Though it always seems to be a certain accent that offers to take my rubbish etc.
Now if the poor under paid civil servants were doing their job fly tipping would be an easy crime to prosecute.Leave a comment:
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Call the SAS...
over fly tipping!
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...ch-fly-tippers
Special forces war veterans are being deployed undercover to help tackle the increasingly violent criminal networks moving into fly-tipping and the dumping of dangerous waste.
Former SAS and special reconnaissance regiment (SRR) service personnel, who specialise in surveillance and “close-target” reconnaissance and who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, are being drafted in to collect evidence against organised crime groups that use collusion, corruption and the threat of violence to profit from environmental offences.
Criminal networks are increasingly exploiting the waste industry in massive fraud and fly-tipping schemes involving household recycling and the dumping or burying of toxic and dangerous substances to evade landfill charges and other taxes.
Security specialist the Subrosa Group, which is hired by councils and waste management companies to crack down on such offences, said it now employed a full-time unit of former special forces “surveillance operatives” to tackle environmental crime, amid concern there was such little government action in the area that such offences were effectively becoming decriminalised.
A senior manager at Subrosa, who asked to be anonymous for security reasons, said covert teams were “secreted in the undergrowth” around waste sites along with cameras hidden in rocks, planks of wood and traffic cones to document criminal behaviour.
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