Specialist pilots are to deploy drones to catch crime gangs fly-tipping waste in London and other parts of the country. The team of 33 pilots will use 54 unmanned aircraft fitted with laser mapping technology to track from the air illegal waste dumps in the South East and other regions.Unles it's given these types of drones it's doomed to failure:
London has the highest rate of fly-tipping in the country, according to recent data, at more than twice the English average, with Croydon the worst affected borough.
Really? Worse than my own dear borough, where I cannot walk the 10 minutes to the local station without seeing the overnight activities of my diverse and enriching 'neighbours'?
Ugh...
The new Environment Agency (EA) squad will target criminal gangs behind large-scale waste dumping rather than individuals involved in opportunistic and smaller scale fly-tipping.
So, ignoring the 'Broken Windows' effect that did so much to clean up New York, before the idiot Democrats went and elected someone who turned it back into a crimeridden literal shithole again?
Officers from the agency will also be able to swiftly scan and cross-check lorry licence applications against waste permit records, using a new screening tool.
It's staggering that this is a new thing, and not something implimented from the get -go.
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They'll do anything except actual boots on the ground policing.
The only surprise is that they haven't managed to work AI into there - still drones *and* lasers is a pretty good effort.
In the Islamic Republic of Bradistan the Clowncil decided to stand down dedicated fly tip teams as...wait for it...it was Waaaaycist to focus on certain post codes
And of course, nobody mentions how difficult it has become to dispose of rubbish legally. Try it, dear reader, try it: you'll find yourself enmeshed in a massive tangle of completely pointless bureaucracy and restrictions. Bring back "the dump" (or as we call it up here, "the cowp") where you just took stuff and, you know, dumped it. All these problems would probably vanish. But reasons, no doubt.
As far as I know, at the moment, offenders are merely fined for environmental offences. Shirley, making this a criminal offence, even if it is under the Public Order Act (action likely to cause harassment, alarm, or distress), including the seizing of vehicles, and then taking action under the Proceeds of Crime Act, could well concentrate the minds of these morons.
It's a shame we can't clone Vlad the Impaler and make him Home Secretary.
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