Wildlife Crime

Heres a challenge to the National Police Web Managers from @Pigsonthewing via Twitter.

@Pigsonthewing has issued a blog appeal for all forces to provide some information about the role of their Wildlife Crime Officers on the police websites. Through some collaborative work via Google Docs, @pigsonthewing has compiled a spreadsheet of the forces showing those which have information about Wildlife Crime and those who do not. It appears that 29 force sites do have information about Wildlife Crime Officers and 22 do not.

Apart from the obvious possibility that some forces don't actually have any Wildlife Crime Officers, it seems strange that there is an almost 50:50 split between those that do and those that don't. Are there any common elements which are provided and which could be adopted as 'standard data' for all forces in due course? As well as providing a 'full-set' of pages throughout the country, we could go further and provide a dataset in the appropriate formats - perhaps as simple as a list of officers' names and contact details. One learning point here which @pigsonthewing rightly points out is that although XML/RSS is the way to provide datasets we could also provide the same data as .CSV format.

Those forces listed with Wildlife Crime links:

Cambridgeshire Constabulary
http://www.cambs-police.co.uk/about/rcat/rural/

Cheshire Constabulary
http://www.cheshire.police.uk/advice--information/rural-and-environment/wildlife-crime.aspx

Cumbria Constabulary
http://www.cumbria.police.uk/advice-and-information/crime-prevention/wildlife-crime

Derbyshire Constabulary
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/local/57.html

Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary
http://www.dg.police.uk/advice/wildlifeCrime.htm

Dorset Police
http://www.dorset.police.uk/default.aspx?page=524

Dyfed-Powys Police
http://www.dyfed-powys.police.uk/en/advice/wildlife/

Fife Constabulary
http://www.fife.police.uk/default.aspx?page=3827

Gloucestershire Constabulary
http://www.gloucestershire.police.uk/ruralpolicing/Wildlife Crime/item4113.html

Greater Manchester Police
http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/Wildlifecrime.htm

Grampian Police
http://www.grampian.police.uk/Advice.aspx?id=170&pid=30;34;188

Gwent Police - Heddlu Gwent
http://www.gwent.police.uk/info_point/eleaflets/wildlife_crime.htm

Hampshire Constabulary
http://www.hampshire.police.uk/Internet/localpolicing/western/testvalley/andover/6TASNT3.htm

Hertfordshire Constabulary
http://www.herts.police.uk/rural_crime/index.htm

Kent Police
http://www.kent.police.uk/Your%20Area/west_kent/news/Policing_the_country.html

Lancashire Constabulary
http://www.lancashire.police.uk/about-us/departments/wildlife

Lothian and Borders Police
http://www.lbp.police.uk/press_release/articles/2010%5CJuly%5C07%5C1.htm

Leicestershire Constabulary
http://www.leics.police.uk/advice/2_information_zone/49_force_wildlife_officer/

Lincolnshire Police
http://www.lincs.police.uk/Youth-Lincs/Teen-Lincs/Police-Departments/Wildlife-Officer/

Merseyside Police
http://www.merseyside.police.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1414

Metropolitan Police Service
http://www.met.police.uk/wildlife/index.htm

Norfolk Constabulary
http://www.norfolk.police.uk/safetyadvice/wildlifeprotection/tacklingtheproblems/wildlifecrimeofficers.aspx

Northern Constabulary
http://www.northern.police.uk/Wildlife-Crime/wildlife-crime.htm

North Yorkshire Police
http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/index.aspx?articleid=457

Police Service of Northern Ireland
http://www.psni.police.uk/index/crime-prevention/wildlife/wildlife-crime.htm

Strathclyde Police
http://www.strathclyde.police.uk/index.asp?locID=184&docID=-1

Surrey Police
http://www.surrey.police.uk/media/news_item.asp?area=12&itemID=4181

Tayside Police
http://www.tayside.police.uk/wildlife/

Thames Valley Police
http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/crprev-animal-animal-crprev-wildlife

Warwickshire Police
http://www.warwickshire.police.uk/crimeprevention/wildlifecrime