Oh dear. It seems that another police chief is making headlines, for all the wrong reasons. Perusing his copy of this week’s Spectator, Steerpike was bemused to read in Charles Moore’s notes about Wiltshire Police’s latest edict. No officer may join the force’s rural crime team if he or she has any link with hunting, even a pre-ban one or one with legal trail-hunting. Wiltshire Police say they are also barring anyone linked with anti-hunt protests. But as Lord Moore argues: ‘There is no symmetry here. Hunting is part of a rural way of life. Anti-hunt protests are political/ideological.’
Intrigued to find out more, Mr S took a look at the Facebook page of the local Police and Crime Commissioner, Philip Wilkinson, who appears to be fighting a thankless one-man battle to justify the policy. Underneath a Facebook post about the aforementioned Spectator article, Wilkinson has been deploying his best Socratic reasoning to explain newly-introduced ban.
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