I know that all of those people aren’t arsonists in a sense, I know a lot of them were doing things like using fireworks or lighting fires to camp or cook food or young children, in fact, that got the benefits of the Young Offenders Act and quite rightly so.
I know all of those people are not people out there trying to kill people or destroy houses and so we need to get that in some perspective.
Still, what it does, what it does show me and the community is that police are well aware that we need to take action against people, whatever that might be, in this time and it is particularly a heightened risk of fire activity and we’ve seen the devastation it causes.
We make no apologies for being so vigilant about that.
