Town Halls Hire Citizen Snoopers as Young as SEVEN to Spy on Neighbours and Report Wrongs

Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as 'citizen snoopers', the Daily Mail can reveal.
The 'environment volunteers' will report on litter louts, noisy neighbours - and even families putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
There are currently almost 9,000 people signed up to the schemes. More are likely to be recruited in the coming months.
Controversially, some councils are running 'junior' schemes which are recruiting children.

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Speed Trap Vigilantes Sought

Motorists will face amateur speed traps run by local volunteer groups in towns and villages across the country, it was revealed yesterday.
Under rules to be sent to police forces in the new year, bands of volunteers will be supplied with speed detection equipment and asked to use it to identify drivers exceeding limits in their area.

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Fancy a Job Fighting Insurance Fraud?

He's all dressed up for a rumble in the jungle, or an ambush in the bush. Pretty exciting stuff for someone who works in insurance.
This fierce-looking fellow is actually an investigator of insurance fraud, a crime which costs the industry millions and leads to premium hikes for the rest of us.
He and his colleagues are called in by insurance companies to gather evidence, sometimes on video, against suspect claimants, such as those who say they are incapacitated by injury.

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Councils To Train Plumbers And Electricians To Be Child Abuse 'Spies'

Tradesmen working for local authorities are to be asked to report signs of child abuse and neglect as they visit the homes of council tenants.
The plumbers, electricians and carpenters will be issued with a checklist of signs to look out for, including ‘unexplained bruising’ and ‘scalds’. Training will last just half a day.
But critics believe the use of workers untrained in such a highly complex field could backfire. They say that children who are at real risk could be overlooked because social workers with already bulging caseloads could be bombarded with baseless complaints.

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I believe this all part of the grand plan to steal our children from us.

Too fat and they get taken into care!

Now snoopers in every council house deciding if you are abusing your children with 4 hours training and being told signs to look out for are temper tantrums, wearing long sleeved clothing in hot weather, discomfort when walking or sitting down.

Crazy!!!

Spy Chief Moves Into New Role With County Council

A former spy chief has joined his local council as a non-executive director. It is thought to be the first time that such a role has existed in local government.
Sir David Pepper, 60, retired in July as director of GCHQ, the Government’s signals intelligence section at Cheltenham. He was a key figure in national security, charged with electronic eavesdropping on suspects across the world and protecting government communications from hackers.
In his new role he will spend two days a month overseeing Gloucestershire County Council’s reorganisation programme.

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An the rest of his time will be spent showing the council how to abuse RIPA and set up snooping and surveillance programmes no doubt!!

Council Use Anti-Terror Laws To Spy On Binmen Accused Of 'Accepting Strawberry Pop Bribe To Take Away Trade Waste'

A council used controversial anti-terror laws to spy on a crew of refuse collectors after receiving a tip-off that they were incorrectly emptying a dustbin.
Officials set up an undercover surveillance operation in an attempt to prove the three binmen were being bribed by a newsagent to take away trade waste when he had not paid the extra fee for it to be collected.
Bury Council in Greater Manchester said the investigation proved that the men had removed trade waste - and it also claimed they had used their refuse truck for ‘pecuniary gain’ because one accepted a bottle of strawberry-flavoured mineral water from the shopkeeper.
As a result, the refuse collectors, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were suspended on full pay for ten months and then sacked.
But now they have won more than £100,000 between them in an out-of-court settlement after claiming unfair dismissal.
One of the collectors said: ‘I thought the law allowing secret filming was to help protect us from terrorists - not for filming three binmen who might have made a mistake by collecting an extra bin or accepting a bottle of pop.’
The episode is just the latest example of town halls using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) - introduced in 2000 ‘in the interests of national security’ - to investigate trivial offences.

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This just shows that anti terrorist laws are being abused on a massive scale and for such petty reasons.
What is more indicative is the fact that the council were tipped off by a snooper.
The Stasi in action here and well in the UK!