It was good to read Phil Mills' article (The Argus, February 20) about the so-called unplanned visit from a WPC to the Endorphine Visions fetish club at Volks Tavern.

I cannot believe the problems this caused. Police are, they say, duty-bound to investigate complaints yet Superintendent Peter Coll, second in command of Brighton and Hove police, carried on to say they did not want the public

to get the wrong impression. Too late. He should have ordered this case not to be pursued in the first place.

Brighton and Hove is cosmopolitan with regard to people living in and visiting this great city and it's about time the police and licensing authority accepted this.

I visit several clubs in London and there is a cross-section of people who attend them. There is never any trouble from like-minded people together from all walks of life, dancing and playing.

The words are "consenting adults", not kids. At all the events I go to, tickets are normally sold in advance and there is a strict policy on dress code, so anyone who attends knows what to expect because they will have made the effort.

Police, leave the clubs alone. Brighton and Hove needs a good, regular fetish club. All this has done is make it more difficult to get a venue - and I should know because I have been searching for quite a while.

No venue owner wants the thought of the police or a licensing officer walking in.

-Chris M, Hove