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When a crime is committed against an animal, it's the job of the Wild Life dectives to find the culprits. Helen Mark walks the beat with Scotland's first wild life cop, Alan Stewart.
For听Stewart, being a wild life cop is as much about partnership as it is about crime busting. 听For the last 15 years, he's forged听links between the police and various groups across the area to foster better reporting of wild life crime.
First he takes Helen to Glenisla and it鈥檚 tiny primary school. Glenisla is one of several schools that take part in a competition created by Stewart. The contest includes drawings and even a short story. Glenisla鈥檚 students won most of the prizes in the county. Head teacher Janet Coyle invites Helen inside to meet some of the students. And you can look at the winning drawings
On to the next partnership and Helen gets down by the River Tay and meets the appropriately named Lee Fisher. Lee鈥檚 a water bailiff who patrols the river and its tributaries, looking for poachers. He works closely with Alan keeping an extra eye out for anything unusual happening on land or on the river banks.
Next, Alan takes Helen to meet veterinary pathologist David Gibson. Like the pathologists in TV programmes like 鈥淐SI鈥 and 鈥淲aking the Dead鈥, David investigates suspicious deaths, only these are of animals. He and Alan chat with Helen about their latest case 鈥 the shooting of a family of oyster catchers.
Gamekeepers and wild life cops often have 听a tense relationship. But Alan has helped to change that in Tayside. At the Invergeldie estate, he and game keeper Andy Rogerson are part of a pioneering project where estate managers听regularlyy meet with police to talk about problems and ways听to deal with听raptors who somtimes pray on听game birds.
Alan鈥檚 written a book about the experiences as a police officer called 鈥.听
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