The Argus and other local papers are constantly reporting incidents in which the police have failed to respond to calls from the public.

A Worthing resident reported that travellers were illegally breaking into an area near his home and setting up camp.

He and other residents had been threatened and criminal damage had been carried out but the police did not want to know.

Two men detained an intruder they had found in their restaurant but had to let him go because the police failed to turn up to collect him.

A Worthing woman, who chaired a public meeting to protest about a gang of yobs terrorising part of the town, was attacked minutes after the meeting.

Present at the meeting were Tim Loughton MP and at least one policeman. Two yobs had left the meeting, swearing and kicking chairs as they did so.

It gets worse. A Brighton pensioner was badly beaten up by an intruder but the police disregarded his phone call asking for help.

Isn't it time Sussex councillors sent a delegation to the Chief Constable to demand that the police do the jobs they are paid for, such as protecting the public and preventing crime?

The way things are going we are fast heading for complete anarchy.

It all began when the police decided, some years ago, to turn a blind eye to what they considered to be minor offences, such as cycling on the pavement, dropping litter, yobbish behaviour and so on.

The genie has truly been let out of the bottle now.

-Matthew Parsons, Hillsboro Road, Bognor