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Your Essential Environmental Enforcement Companion
The job of an environmental enforcement officer is tough. We can make it a little bit easier.
With environmental legislation spread across many different acts and regulations, it can often be difficult to find exactly what you need exactly when you need it.
Written by legal expert Jenny Watts*, this essential toolkit pulls everything you need together into one simple step-by-step guide – saving you time and money.
To request a quote email network.enquiries@keepbritaintidy.org
The companion supports enforcement officers in their everyday work by providing plenty of real-world examples and template notices.
It comes as both a digital and hard copy personalised with your logo.
Who is it for?
This companion is for anyone investigating and prosecuting environmental crime. The powerful toolkit empowers teams to interpret the law, issue robust notices, and prosecute environmental crime with confidence.
The benefit of standard operating procedures
As well as helping reduce and manage risks, working to a set of standard operating procedures like these has been shown to improve:
- Compliance
- Consistency
- Efficiency
- Communications
- Training
- And satisfaction
Did you know?
According to DEFRA, between 2021 and 2022 local authorities in England dealt with a whopping 1.09 million fly-tipping incidents.
To request a quote email network.enquiries@keepbritaintidy.org or call us on 01942 612655.
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Don't Take Our Word For It
“This is great for practicing officers and fellow professionals to have a clear and concise go-to toolkit which covers many different areas and topics of environmental crime and ASB all within one book.”
Pat Mackshea – Maldon District Council
“This toolkit consolidates all key legislation in a user-friendly way, with lots of important points to note that can be used as a prompt and clear reference point.”
Aneta Szkodlarska – London Borough of Hounslow
“Really good and easy to read. A perfect reference document with all the key offences and legislation together, especially for newer members of staff, but also experienced officers.”
Nicola Tansley – Chelmsford City Council
*About Jenny Watts
Jenny Watts is a solicitor specialising in environmental law. Reading Environmental Management at university, Jenny went on to work in the waste management industry, completing her WAMITAB technical competence for managing waste operations.
Appreciating the complexities of waste legislation and regulation, Jenny trained and qualified as a lawyer in 2010 and is the Managing Director of Watts Legal. In addition, she is also the Chief Executive of UROC. UROC is a trade body representing the interests of independent waste and resource operators across the UK. UROC also works with government and regulators in respect of policy and regulatory reforms.
Over the last decade, Jenny has delivered Keep Britain Tidy’s environmental enforcement training to local authorities and supported officers with expert advice and guidance.
Jenny Watts, Solicitor, Environmental Law
Research Partners Needed
We are looking for research partners to help us look at how to improve the awareness and perception of enforcement and increase its overall effectiveness in changing behaviour. If you’re interested, please check out our research brief.
