In reply to toad:
"The Trust understands from George that a Sergeant has since apologised on behalf of South Yorkshire Police for how they treated George and his girlfriend, stating that the officers involved were not trained wildlife crime officers and were out of their depth in dealing with something of this nature."
Ah, so without specific training in "wildlife crime", you wouldn't expect an ordinary copper to realise that it's not ok for masked men to randomly intimidate and detain members of the public?
I hope the gamekeepers' behaviour here will be taken into account when their shotgun licences are up for renewal.
If anyone would be so kind as to summarise it here I'd be interested to hear what the 'Wildlife Crime Officers' have to say too, though I'm sure they'll decline to comment on the above. I won't be at the meeting unfortunately, as per, Wednesday nights are no good for me.