{"id":219886,"date":"2026-01-06T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:29:05","slug":"herefordshire-fly-tipping-prosecution-dip-not-full-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/219886\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire fly-tipping prosecution dip &#8216;not full picture&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said many cases were prosecuted under related legislation such as duty of care and waste offences, &#8220;where this offers the strongest route to conviction&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durkin said when this enforcement activity was included, prosecutions totalled 13 across 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The councillor added the council&#8217;s approach to enforcement combined &#8220;education, accessible waste services, fixed penalty notices and prosecution for serious or persistent offenders&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the authority was &#8220;grateful&#8221; to the public for reporting incidents and said it remained &#8220;committed to protecting&#8221; the county from environmental crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said many cases were prosecuted under related legislation such as duty of care and waste offences, &#8220;where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-219886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}