Stench Police Created in Britain

New regulations require businesses to submit odor management plans to the British Environment Agency and smell enforcement advisers will assess compliance. The legislation was enacted due to a rise in complaints which reportedly coincided with the rise in the number of composting sites and recycling centers.

Notably, rotting material at waste management firms is the single biggest source of complaints. Nonetheless, the new regulations apply to all businesses and residences.

Odour advisers will be selected for their selected for their sense of smell. One will be sent to each of the Agency's eight regions in England and Wales, where they will coordinate existing front-line pollution control officers to tackle unpleasant smells.

Under the scheme, pollution control officers are being sent on courses where their noses are "calibrated" by experts, a process which involves testing their responses to a range of odours.

Officers deemed to have a very keen sense of smell will be rejected, as will those whose sense of smell is too dull.

Only those with an average sensitivity to smell are being accepted to carry out odour work in "stench squads".

Stench pollution violators can be prosecuted and fined.

Frankly, I suggest the rankest stench coming out of the UK is dhimmitude but, unfortunately, it appears that no British noses can detect the odor. Readers might want to weigh in with additional irony.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.