Home Report Contact Us News & Policies More We independently investigate the alleged wrongdoing of individuals, authorities, and businesses in our fight for you regardless of your location. We aim to work with the public but will, where necessary, not hesitate to hold people accountable with our paper or the law. What do we do? Education We educate both communities and the accused through our paper or the IID's own blog and also through petitions, independent advice, and recorded IID warnings. Read More > law enforcement When someone has committed a serious crime and is a danger to society, we can use citizen powers to make an arrest or could, alternatively, request to collaborate with the police to bring the alleged offender to justice through a joint investigation. We can also use reasonable force in most countries and may also carry (and use) handcuffs while reporting in the UK. Read More > accountability When an individual, business, or agency has acted unethically/immorally or caused societal nuisance/distress, we can work with them to try and solve the problem or may, where appropriate, gather proof and expose/prosecute the accused. Read More > evidence & intelligence We actively gather intelligence to try and detect any problems in many communities and will, where needed, gather evidence/information about an issue or offender; where necessary, this can be published online or shared with law enforcement and other internal/external departments, people, or groups. We can also investigate reports shared with, or made to, us. Read More > About the IID A Department of fully independent LCN investigators, reporters, and journalists, we actively try to identify community issues and will act on any that are identified via reader-submitted reports and our own intelligence. We can do this in many ways, like: launching independent investigations, joining forces with law enforcement or other agencies, educating, advising, making citizens' arrests and using the appropriate force, offering victims support and advise, exposing the reality of a situation, privately prosecuting the accused, and reporting a crime as a paper or on behalf of our informing source(s), as well as issuing a pre-enforcement warning (either advisory or recorded). The IID aims to do its upmost to protect the communities that it serves; these are usually in our current focus areas — Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire — but may also be done throughout the rest of the UK and around the world in accordance with any differing legislation & procedures. OUR Department Independent. Trustworthy. Helpful. Reliable. International. Fighting for you and your community! File a Report Concerned about your situation or community? If so, please make a report, and we'll decide whether an investigation needs to be launched by the IID Department. Report Contact us / Recent News & Policy Updates No posts published in this language yet Once posts are published, you’ll see them here. Littlehampton-focused Department.

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Welcome to LCN's Independent Animal Advice & Investigation Department (IAD) An Independent advisory Department for animal-related matters, we do not have any legal powers but are able to offer our own advice, suggestions, and one-to-one support to the public. We can do this in many different ways, such as: launching independent investigations, reviews, or campaigns; submitting reports to the authorities; offering advice and support; visiting people; requesting to collaborate with animal protection services, the police, or other internal/external departments; or referring people to their local animal-protecting agencies. If you suspect that an animal's immediate safety is at risk, please contact your local animal protection agency. Alternatively, you could call 999/112, asking for the police and explaining the situation to the operator. Contact the IAD Who are the IAD, and what is our aim? A volunteer team of independent journalists/reporters, this team and its designated journalists aim to help safeguard and protect potentially at-risk animals and ensure that they are safe. We also launch our own, independent investigations into the welfare of animals and will gather intelligence/evidence if we suspect, or are informed of, animal cruelty, and our specially designated team members will not hesitate to bring animals to safety and perform citizens' arrests on those looking to harm innocent animals. If possible, we will always try and gather as much evidence as possible of any crimes committed against defenceless animals over the necessary time period, bringing these abusers to justice and putting them before the court with our IAD-collected evidence. However, unfortunately, this will not always be in the animal(s)'s best interests, and we would need to involve the authorities immediately in certain situations; for example, if there is an immediate concern for the safety of an animal. The IAD will always try and gather intelligence if a report is made to us about the following topics: wild/domestic animal complaints/concerns, cruelty to animals, animal mistreatment/neglect, anti-social behaviour involving an animal, animal fights, animal trafficking/thefts, general complaints, and unexplained injuries/deaths involving animals. We will also try and gather intelligence on the welfare of both wild and domesticated animals to try and uncover any issues in the communities we visit, especially around our focus areas — Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire. Get in touch with the IAD! No posts published in this language yet Once posts are published, you’ll see them here.