Whilst looking through the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation website for information on another raptor persecution article, I came across an interesting few pages under the heading, ” What to do in the Event of a Police Search”.
In this section you can find information on police warrants, what to do while a search is in progress, what to do when arrested and/or locked up, not to answer any questions until your solicitor is present etc. With the prominent position that this advice commands, the uninitiated could be forgiven for thinking that having your home and workplace searched or being arrested and locked up is part and parcel of the work of the gamekeeper. Well, is it? Perhaps I’m being a little naive!
It also occurred to me that if an organisation that represented another profession, for example medical doctors, solicitors, teachers or indeed scrap metal merchants, distributed information on what to do when arrested you may think that something was pretty rotten at the core of that profession.
http://www.nationalgamekeepers.org.uk/media/resource_files/PoliceSearchesAdvice.pdf
Raptor Persecution UK 
The SGA Scottish Gamekeepers Association have been giving out such advice for years – Ive seen keepers referring to printed documents like this on searches.
The SGA was set up in response to a growing number of successful searches for poison in the early 1990s – this came as a huge shock to the criminal sections of the shooting community. The response was that of any petty criminals – say that they were all being “set up” and try to discredit those investigating them, also to divide the police from the experts [RSPB and SSPCA in this instance; and very sadly they have largely been successful in that political aim].
These were basically defence associations – nothing illegal in that…but as you say it does make you wonder why they would need such a thing, given that our justice system is full of checks and balances to prevent miscarriages of justice.
The advice they had was often wrong!
The reason keepers organisations provide such advice is because they expect some of their members to be found out or at least investigated, because after all most of them a little more than full time professional wildlife criminals. They and their employers still live in the age of edwardian and victorian attituides when it comes to predator control legal or otherwise. This is a total arrogant disregard for current laws.