Wildlife
Inspector Tracey Day, the Force Wildlife Officer joined
Bedfordshire Police in 1983. She currently works as an
Inspector in Bedford running the North Response section.
Tracey is a very keen horse rider and enjoys the outdoors and
countryside life and nothing brings a smile to her face like
riding on her horse and seeing wildlife and nature at its
best.
Since taking over the role of Wildlife Officer, Tracey has
completed the wildlife enforcers course and is now looking to
improve ease of contact and highlight more awareness of her role
and responsibilities.
Wildlife priorities
Our wildlife priorities for 2011-2013 are:
1. Badger persecution ( to improve and increase reporting of
incidents and intelligence)
2. Bat persecution ( to raise awareness of responsibilities
and criminal offences against bats)
3. Control of endangered species in particular ivory,
tortoise and traditional medicines trading (increase the number of
disruption activities and detections in illegal trade of CITIES
priority species
4. Criminality affecting Fresh water pearl mussels
(facilitate intelligence and incident reporting leading to
increased prevention and enforcement)
5. Poaching issues of deer, fish and hare (increase level
of awareness of poaching and hare coursing, leading to increased
prevention intelligence and enforcement success)
6. Raptor persecution including poisoning, egg and chick
theft, taking from the wild and nest disturbance ( raise awareness
to facilitate intelligence and incident reporting to increase
prevention and enforcement)
Key message to the public
If there is a crime taking progress involving wildlife crime,
please contact our Force Control Room on 101.
If you have any queries or other non-urgent issues then you
can contact Tracey by emailing tracy.day@bedfordshire.pnn.police.uk