What a strange blend of naivety and double standards from Councillor Catherine Shelley (Letters, October 22).

Firstly, she directly attacks Geoffrey Theobald for raising the issue of the new custody block at Hollingbury.

She neglects to criticise her party colleague Tehmtan Framroze, who made identical remarks, albeit two days behind Councillor Theobald, as ever.

She then seems to have a rose-tinted view that all those arrested and immediately released are paragons of virtue.

She makes it sound as though Sussex Police are arresting innocent people at random. If this was the case, every page in The Argus would be about a wrongful arrest suit.

The real irresponsibility is in burying your head in the sand and pretending crime isn't as bad as it has become under Phony Tony.

Councillor Theobald is entirely correct to raise legitimate concerns of residents and that Sussex Police are reneging on an earlier agreement.

Patcham is under-policed as it is, without this extra potential workload being dumped on the area. Perhaps the reason Coun Shelley does not see a problem around John Street is because there are so many more police officers in her area, which surely reinforces its suitability as a release point.

-Andrew Garrood, London Road, Brighton