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Before this new legislation, many homeowners faced significant hurdles when trying to remove squatters from their property. Police often deemed these situations civil matters, leaving affected homeowners at the mercy of lengthy court processes. This left squatters free to remain in the home for extended periods, sometimes defying multiple eviction attempts under the old legal framework.
The impasse usually revolved around convincing law enforcement that the leases used by squatters were illegitimate. In one notable case narrated in the report, a homeowner presented what he believed was a fake lease to police, only to be told that the officers could not intervene immediately and he would need to resolve it through the courts.