it all about numbers and figures when crime rate goes up in an area, police are given targets to hit, more convictions brings the crime rate down, so if theres an increase in violent crimes, rapes murders, a few convictions for wildlife crime adds to bring the numbers down, police are told to get out and do as many people as possible for whatever they can, ie bald tyres, seatbelts WILDLIFE CRIME, good mate of mines brother was a copper and jacked his job in because of how it was all set out he sed its nothing to do with stopping crime just hitting targets for the government