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Last broadcast on Thu, 10 Nov 2011, 05:45 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Your police need you! Charlotte Smith hears how volunteers could help tackle rural crime. It rose by 17% in 2010, and the Association of Chief Police Officers is holding the first conference on how to target organised and opportunistic crime in the countryside. Charlotte Smith speaks to Chief constable Richard Crompton from Lincolnshire Police.
Sheep rustling is proving a particularly difficult crime to police, and we hear from one Welsh sheep farmer now offering a £5,000 reward for the loss of 145 animals.
Farming Today hears taxpayers may have to pay £80 million for fines levied on Northern Ireland by the European Commission. The fines have arisen after the mapping system which calculates farm subsidy payments has failed to operate correctly. Charlotte questions Northern Ireland's agriculture minister Michelle O'Neill on where the money to pay the fines will come from.
Producer Clare Freeman
Presenter MRS CHARLOTTE SMITH.
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Thu 10 Nov 201105:45
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