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It is in everyone’s interest to stop fly-tipping in Jersey
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From David Morgan.
I DO agree that, as far as fly-tipping is concerned (JEP, 12 July), prevention is better than cure.
I would hope that the way to reduce the likelihood of these illegal deposits of waste would be to supply sufficient facilities, such as bottle banks that are regularly emptied.
I am a retired States police officer, now living in West Wales. I am employed by a local authority to investigate environmental crimes such as occur at the recycling centres in Jersey.
Here, the more serious type of fly-tipping can attract a fine of up to £50,000 or five years in jail. More usually we would use a lesser offence of depositing litter for the type of occurrence mentioned in the article about Jersey’s ‘bring sites’. Even this could attract a maximum fine of £2,500 in the Magistrate’s Court.
Offenders are able to discharge their liability for prosecution if they accept a fixed penalty notice for £75 and pay this within 14 days. If they fail to pay the fixed penalty in that time, a report would be submitted to our legal services department and the offender would then be taken to court.
A major tool used to combat this sort of crime is CCTV. We have signs warning the public that CCTV is in use at the bring sites, so there is no excuse when people are caught.
Keeping the Island tidy costs a lot of money and it obviously hits the public purse. The majority of people in the Island pay tax or parish rates, from which the clean-ups are financed, so in these days of reported recession, it is in everyone’s interest that this sort of behaviour is reduced. Good luck in resolving this issue.
Caerau Farm,
Llandeilo,
Carmarthenshire.
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