I must again congratulate The Argus for taking up the delicate subject of profits from parking tickets.

I am in full agreement with keeping our city roads as free of traffic as possible.

However, I have great concern about the way Brighton and Hove City Council is dealing with it.

We seem to have gone completely out of control since passing the policing of this problem to a private company to free our police force's time for more important matters.

I agree the police are better occupied in more important matters and policing in many areas has improved.

However, to reach the much-improved standard of some areas - New York is a prime example - we must remain focused and have much to do.

We would gain more benefit as a city if our new parking control organisation, NPAS, spent more time controlling dangerous double parking - for example double parking reducing access for emergency vehicles and public transport, which is now commonplace - than handing out unnecessary parking tickets for the sake of it and to the annoyance of the majority.

The time has arrived to stop this bonanza and focus on what parking control is, or should be, all about.

-Bob Jennings, West Way, Hove