"The committee argued that fly-tipping is being drastically under-prioritised despite causing significant environmental, social and economic costs of around 1 billion every year. The letter said: We are deeply concerned about the demonstrable inadequacy of the current approach to tackling waste crime. The peers also said they were unimpressed with the lack of interest shown by the police in fulfilling their role by bringing to bear their expertise in tackling serious and organised waste crime."
"This included establishing a joint unit for waste crime to improve collaboration between bodies at a local level, especially local government and policing and the handling of reports or sharing of intelligence. The peers also called for the Treasury to review rules on managing public money preventing the Environment Agency to divert resources from its regulatory work to crime enforcement as well as to maintain additional funding provided to the Environment Agency next year."
Police and the Environment Agency are failing to address fly-tipping by organised crime groups, with police showing a lack of interest in deploying expertise against serious and organised waste crime. Fly-tipping imposes environmental, social and economic costs estimated at around £1 billion annually. The Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee called for an independent root-and-branch review of serious and organised waste crime and proposed establishing a joint waste crime unit to improve local collaboration, intelligence sharing and report handling. The committee urged the Treasury to review public money rules to allow the Environment Agency to redirect resources and to maintain additional funding.
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