Warwickshire Hunt Ltd has been issued with a Community Protection Notice

Warwickshire Rural Crime Team

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Today we have served a Community Protection Notice to

Warwickshire Hunt Limited.

We've issued this because we gave Warwickshire Hunt a

warning notice in May 2022 about antisocial use of the

county road network. We continue to see unreasonable

and dangerous use of the roads.

This notice imposed conditions to address this behaviour

under the scope of the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and

Policing Act 2014.

The conditions require Warwickshire Hunt to give us

advance notice of events, and details of the times and

locations of road crossing points. There are also

requirements to inform us about who will control dogs

during the event, and for the organisation to notify

participants about their responsibilities around crossing

roads at designated points. Breaching the conditions will

amount to a criminal offence.

This is a three-year notice, and the organisation has the

right of appeal within 21 days.

We have issued this notice because we're committed to

keeping the Warwickshire road network safe. We want to

prevent criminal behaviour that impacts our communities

using our roads safely.

We encourage anyone who witnesses or is impacted by

antisocial use of our roads to contact us so that we can respond.

This move comes after the hunt repeatedly ignored a warning that had been issued to them in May of this year.

My own comment is not just ‘wow’ but also exasperation as the continuing arrogance and scant regard for others. A very well done from Warwickshire Rural Crime Team - ‘policing for us’ and thank you.