PSNI figures show a sharp rise in reported agricultural crime in the Derry and Strabane area last year.
An organised gang of criminals may be targeting farms in Northern Ireland’s north west, a member of the local policing and community safety partnership has said.
Independent PCSP member Thomas Conway said he beleives a gang operating in the area may be responsible for a spate of recent thefts."It is maybe just one gang operating and doing this and they are located in the north west," he said. PSNI rural crime lead Supt Johnston McDowell said statistics “don’t account for the impact rural crime can have”.
A number of thefts in the north west have also been reported to the PSNI in the first few months of this year. “I know that is probably down to finance, to money, and manpower. But when people of an ill disposed nature see a lack of policing they take advantage," he added.
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