Before reading the article about Ellen Kramer-Herman and the comments about it from Terry Wing, I had thought when Roger Birch resigned we could not get a bigger waste of space as a chief constable.

I was obviously wrong. The response of the police has even worsened.

It is the top management that is to blame, not the lack of funding given as the excuse.

It is about time senior police officers get off of their backsides and made sure the men on the beat and in patrol cars were using their time more efficiently.

-R N G McCormack, Langley Crescent, Woodingdean