I agree with Stuart Bower in that Brighton and Hove City Council is wasting money unneccessarily on travellers (Letters, February 24).
However, I feel Stuart may have missed the solution I offered: Parliament drafting simple legislation so that trespass can be made a summary offence.
The manual he mentions, Police Law (now Blackstones, previously known as Butterworth), does not cover all of the law in the UK.
The common law “breach of the peace” is a tad woolly in that, although an arrest can be made, the problem then arises at the police station with the suspect’s detention.
In any event, while a magistrate can bind someone over, this could be several weeks later.
And breaching a bindover means back to court again, and so on.
S Zapello, Portslade
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