If Councillor Catherine Shelley feels I am being irresponsible and adding to the fear of crime in the Hollingbury area by responding to information uncovered by The Argus, why has she written to the letters page (October 22) to give further publicity to the U-turn by Sussex Police?

As a councillor for Patcham ward, I gave my support for the new custody centre on the basis of the pledge by the previous chief constable that prisoners would be taken home or back to where they were arrested.

Coun Shelley is correct when she states that a very wide range of people are arrested and released from custody every day. How they then leave this outlying part of Brighton is what concerns my electors. Public transport from the new Hollingbury custody centre cannot compare with what is available near John Street police station, Brighton.

-Coun Geoffrey Theobald, Dyke Road Avenue, Brighton