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Episode 149 - Heritage crime watch: how we’re protecting our historic treasures

The English Heritage Podcast

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The Alliance to Reduce Crime Against Heritage

The alliance to reduce crime against heritage is now ten years old. How does it work to reduce heritage crime? Mark, well, i got a a call in two thousand and 10 when i was a senior police officer  and offered me the position to become polecing adviser to english heritage as we were back then. And our objective was to pull together a strategic partnership and also try and understand and assess the scale and extent of the problem. So people forget what just five minutes of a reckless grafiti can have over permanently over hundreds of years. Yes. It's just taking some action. Now whether that’s a prosecution or another form of intervention, it doesn't matter.

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