PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nature Conservation: Crime (30 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will introduce enhanced training for police officers and call handlers across all agencies on tackling wildlife crime.

Asked by:
Kerry McCarthy (Labour)

Answer

With the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Home Office funds the National Wildlife Crime Unit, which provides intelligence, analysis and specialist assistance to individual police forces and other law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom that allows them to deal effectively with wildlife crime investigations.


Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
5 December 2017

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