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National Environmental Crime Conference 2009

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9.15 Delegate arrival
  Registration and refreshments
9.45 Introduction and welcome
  Professor Gloria Laycock (OBE), Director,  Dept for Security and and Crime Science, UCL
10.00 Modernising enforcement project: adopting an intelligence-led approach
  Richard Parker, Environment Agency
10.30 Policing and the environmental crime agenda
  Pete Charleston, North Wales Police and ACPO - Association of Chief Police Officers
11.00 Refreshments
11.30
 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESPONSES
  Chair:  Dr Steve Welch, CEO ESP Knowledge Transfer Network
 
  • Use of spaceborne instrumentation in the field of environmental crime prevention Professor Jan-Peter Muller, Head of Imaging, Space Science Lab, UCL
  • Environmental forensics - tracing brownsite polluters Professor Bob Kalin, Strathclyde University
  • Forensic testing for endangered species Dr Sibte Hadi, University of Central Lancashire

Panel session
13.00 Lunch
13.45 PANEL DEBATE and AUDIENCE Q&A: IS ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME TREATED SERIOUSLY?
 
  • Chair and Panelist 1: Nick Ross, Broadcaster
  • Panelist 2: Andy Higham, Environment Agency
  • Panelist 3: Prof Paul Leonard, UK Environmental Law Association - UKELA
  • Panelist 4: Peter Johnson, Fairer and Better Environmental Enforcement, DEFRA
14.45  Refreshments
15.00
CURRENT PRACTISE: CASE STUDIES FROM CROSS-AGENCY COLLABORATION
 

Chair:  Spencer Chainey, Director, GIS, Dept for Security and Crime Science, UCL

  • Fly tipping: causes, incentives and solutions Professor Nick Tilley, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science
  • Electronic duty of care project - waste innovation programme Beth Axtell, National Enforcement, Environment Agency
  • Securing compliant exports project Stewart Carrick, Environment Agency
  • Palynology and botanical ecology: Case studies in solving wildlife crime Patricia Wiltshire, University of Aberdeen
16.20 Closing remarks
16.30 Close

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