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Tim Weston

Tim Weston

Director of Environment, Policy and Politics at National Gamekeepers' Organisation; expert on rural crime, hare coursing, and conservation policy in the UK.

Jul 17, 2026

13:23
And yet, he says, across the country, there's a discrepancy in how the two are treated.
13:29
You're in your house, 999, someone's breaking into my house.
13:34
There's three people, and I feel threatened.
13:36
You would expect the police to turn up.
13:40
999, there's someone breaking into my field.
13:43
There's three of them, and I feel threatened.
13:45
And the response back then was, "We'll get to you if we can." So it's, it's quite normal that on a Sunday afternoon you're gonna get a team of hare coursers drive round a community and go and commit crimes, and there's a high possibility that nobody will respond.
16:03
And the most shocking thing of all is that it's not even that unusual.

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