{"id":591614,"date":"2026-05-19T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:38:10","slug":"people-warned-not-to-hunt-down-shropshire-fly-tippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591614\/","title":{"rendered":"People warned not to hunt down Shropshire fly-tippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said items commonly removed included letters, packaging, and other documents &#8211; items that would otherwise be used to bring criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it was understandable people are frustrated by fly-tipping, it said the dumped rubbish should be treated as a crime scene and left alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The public&#8217;s most valuable role is to report incidents promptly, ideally with photographs,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Vasmer, the Shropshire councillor responsible for highways and waste, said: &#8220;When evidence is removed or shared online, it can completely undermine our investigations and allow offenders to go unpunished.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council said items commonly removed included letters, packaging, and other documents &#8211; items that would otherwise be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}