Yes mate I am plod and stuff like this winds me up cause it does nothing to make the job easier. How do we expect any support from peole when we keep making arses of ourselves like this ( I was going to say shooting ourselves in the foot but I could hear the groans from here). Im a bit biased cause I shoot but it wouldnt matter if the complaint was that your kids were noisy or that your shirt was offensive. Openes and common sense must and should prevail.
What gets me is that if in reality these cats are getting slotted, has the PC been round all the avid gardners to ask them the same questions, because no one has more issues with cats than a man with a lovelly seed bed which has had used as a toilet by next doors tabby. .