Since a couple of years, Great Britain has to face the rising of crimes against farmers. Nothing is safe: from ducks, to piglets, from fuel to tractors.
The biggest target are sheep. A few months ago in Lancashire a flock of 271 sheep disappeared.
The offenders usually act during night and they know how to handle sheep, because on average anybody does not hear a bleat.
Animals are stolen because of the growth of meat prices, but crime adjust to whatever is currently valuable: tractors and quad bikes are at risk.
We are talking of machines worth a great amount of money, (a combine harvester can cost even £100,000) left outside, without protection. It’s like a Ferrari without antitheft and with a bigger market.
National Farmers Union (NFU) and Police have decided to cooperate to reduce farmers’ losses. So, there’s a revival of interest in Farmwatch , a country version of Neighbourhood Watch, created for the first time 21 years ago.
The teamwork has organized: farmers are on guard and watch livestock, reporting suspicious movements and Police investigate on animal and trucks trading.
Read the original article written by Martin Wainwright for The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/23/rural-crime-sheep-rustling
Learn more about Neighbourhood Watch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_watch
Read the article in Italian on Agente Lisa's blog
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