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Tayside Police employs a full time civilian Wildlife and Environment Officer, Alan Stewart (pictured, right). A retired Police Inspector,
Alan specialised in poaching cases in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of his service in the 1980s and early 1990s was spent in CID in Perth and
the Drugs Branch at Force Headquarters. On his retiral from the Force in 1993, Alan was appointed as Force Wildlife Liaison Officer, the first
such appointment in Scotland.
He is supported by a number of police officers with specialist training who carry out the role of Wildlife Crime Officer in addition to their other duties. This varied role incorporates
Wildlife Crime Officers give talks on different aspects of wildlife crime and assist in the training of different groups and organisations where the employees may encounter crimes against wildlife. They regularly carry out joint enquiries with other government agencies such as Scottish Government Rural Payments Inspections Directorate and Scottish Natural Heritage, or with non-government organisations such as the SSPCA and the RSPB. They also work closely with farming, landowning and gamekeeping organisations and with organisations which have a working or leisure involvement with wildlife or the environment. |
