THIS council's bizarre answer to the graffiti problem in the city seems to be to punish the victims with community protection orders and possibly fines (The Argus, January 26).

The victims of graffiti might include residential premises and small businesses, so where is the assistance to deal with the removal of it?

Also, the council is often slow in dealing with graffiti on its own premises, so will it be issuing these orders to itself?

A few years ago, graffiti was sprayed along the front walls of residential buildings along my street so I reported this and it was promptly removed by the staff of the (then Labour-led) council.

If the council were to use the system of contacting all property owners, the process of removing potentially offensive graffiti would have taken a long time and have been more expensive.

The council needs to work with community police officers to tackle this issue and provide the means by which the graffiti can be removed.

It should always remove offensive and bigoted graffiti straight away.

This seems to be another gimmicky and poorly thought-out proposal by the "Green" led council administration.

Rob Heale

Chatham Place

Brighton