It is beyond a joke that with guns, helicopters, computers, flashy cars, riot gear, dogs, mobile phones, walkie-talkies, mountain bikes and high-speed motorcycles the police cannot attend a car theft because there had been a murder.

Sussex Police should be brought to book by withholding the funds paid to them from taxes.

Not so many years ago, the policeman on a pushbike with a whistle and a truncheon kept law and order.

Now the police act as though they are an army against the public.

If the police cannot solve these overwhelming crimes that occur day after day, why don't they admit it?

-Tom Cousins, New Church Road, Hove