Ringing plod

[tegater 789]

One permission ive to ring them and get a job number from them its a waste of time the armed response still turn out

Which is another reason you shouldn't.

 

I am interested though, what law they are applying when they say you have to notify them.?

[StevoSmith 147]

As the law stands mate you do not.....but it's a good idea that you do otherwise you could lose a good few hours hunting if ARU show up trying to explain yourself

 

 

On another note...lets say i turned up at one of my perms at 3 am and land owners were in bed....i was busy doing my thing and plod turned up,,,,and had to wake up the said land owners because i failed to notify the police what i was doing....i doubt they would be very happy....ok this could happen anyway but it's less likely if i had informed them first

[The one 8,504]

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'The one' timestamp='1336597007' post='2611380']

One permission ive to ring them and get a job number from them its a waste of time the armed response still turn out

 

Which is another reason you shouldn't.

 

I am interested though, what law they are applying when they say you have to notify them.?

 

They asked me to do a risk assessment . Take my insurance and phone the police each time i go out and for the amount of rabbits im getting im more than willing to do it .

[tegater 789]

'tegater' timestamp='1336597189' post='2611391']

'The one' timestamp='1336597007' post='2611380']

One permission ive to ring them and get a job number from them its a waste of time the armed response still turn out

 

Which is another reason you shouldn't.

 

I am interested though, what law they are applying when they say you have to notify them.?

 

They asked me to do a risk assessment . Take my insurance and phone the police each time i go out and for the amount of rabbits im getting im more than willing to do it .

Each to their own. where I live the cops seem to police with some common sense.

 

 

[ArchieHood 3,692]

I'm a no no as well, I sometimes visit permissions on the spur of the moment or if im travelling nearby.I wouldn't knock the ones who do though.

[tegater 789]

The farmers on all of my permissions also shoot. Are we really lead to beleive that they all have to let the cops know, every time they step out of their door, with their gun, on their land!

 

Its popycock.

 

If you want to save the police's time, give them your phone number, and everytime that someone phones old bill to report you, (which probably hardly ever happens) tell the police to phone your number to confirm it is you shooting!

If they still turn out after that, then the whole process is a waste of time anyway.

 

Save spending the tax payers money, on tying up the police!

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I have also had them ring me and ask me to keep an eye out for stolen vehicles! They use the farm tracks to escape sometimes....

[fry 209]

I have also had them ring me and ask me to keep an eye out for stolen vehicles! They use the farm tracks to escape sometimes....

well that is reason enough for me not to ring them to be honest i really dont want people ringing me, especially them to do their job for em.

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Yeah and you want some asswipe nicking your car and not getting caught?

[fry 209]

thats not the point is it the point is that you have to phone before you go and then answer your phone to them while you are in the field. you may as well take your laptop and skype them then you could chat to them the whole time you were out.

[porkycrook 466]

As far as i can see and am concerned, at the moment its not the law that you have to inform anybody. So it is up to the individual, I don't. My permission page that the land owner signs, has on there hours that i can shoot. My permission is situated in the middle of no where, but still has one neighbour to which i introduced myself to him at my first sighting of him. I have taken this on as a matter of manners, i had a chat with him and explained that Mr X had called me in to try to reduce the numbers of vermin to which he was glad that something was being done about the problem.

 

The problem that i know happens because the ambulance service is the same. When you phone the non emergency number you get hold of somebody they arn't even in your area, the control rooms are now no longer local. So if you do phone the chances of it being put through to the correct local bobbies are virtually nil. The only way you can know its going to get to the correct station, is to look it up yourself and phone them.

 

If my shoot was in a rural area and farmers and the like are carrying guns as a norm, then i would not phone. But if my permission was in a built up area, then personally i would sort out the local stations number and report but i would also ask them if they wanted a phone call everytime. You might find that once they had been contacted and been given all the relivant information, land owners details (doubt if the had it any way), your name etc including cars details that then they might say not to bother again. If joe public does then have cause to report you, all it would take is a panda car to drive past and see its the reg number you had given them. Job done.

 

Personal choice, at the moment on the permissions that i have, my answer is no i haven't. But that might change on my next permission.

 

 

ATVB

 

Roger

[silentshot1 206]

One text to the Land Owner to say I'll be about and I'm off out.

 

Each to their own way, but I don't and round my area, they would have to open a seperate control room if everbody out shooting called in!

[nasher1 258]

I never contact the police I do a lot of spur of the moment hunting lots of it lamping at unsocial hours, I carry my permission slips with me just to be safe but if you have permission you have nothing to worry about, the more people contact the police to inform them their going out it wont be long before plod think its law and inforce off their own back

[StevoSmith 147]

I have no choice on one of my permissions as it's 200 meters from police helipad

[dave goodall 10]

Yeah and you want some asswipe nicking your car and not getting caught?

 

And what next u see a suspicious van slowly creeping on the lane u ring old bill and not knowingly u have just reported the local digging / dogging/ terrier long dog lads to them no thanks let them do there own job what other people get up too is up to them as long as your on permission theres nothing they can do sure the police have better things to be doing than searching fields for airgunners or in this part the country they have