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Originally Posted by Hiddlebit
The law in this matter is not "PC". Or if it is, PC goes back a very long way.
The current laws of trespass go back to the late 1600s/early 1700s. And the act of trespass is not a criminal offence, it is civil: the police can't touch them. In strict legal terms, the act of trespass as a civil offence is "unlawful" rather than "illegal." The police can only act where an action is "illegal".
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I think I'd be peed of if a copper told me that there was nothing they can do if some cretin set up camp in my back yard, given the fact that I wouldn't be allowed to take the law into my own hands and move them myself. But isn't that the problem here the law protects the feckless and rides roughshod over law abiding citizens who only want whats right in society
