“The aim of the Poaching Priority Delivery Group – Scotland is to increase the level of awareness of poaching and hare coursing as serious wildlife crimes and to build better trust and relationships between the law enforcement agencies and local communities, leading to increased prevention activity, intelligence flows and enforcement success.

The CLA is well placed to help by raising awareness of the issue to its members, and in particular, the need for timely and accurate reporting of such incidents to the police.

Representatives from the police force emphasised that the greatest resource that the police have is the public and that a more accurate record of these incidents is invaluable.

See “Poaching trails” an article on the subject published in the July 2013 Land and Business magazine.”