How can today's stretched regional police service find extra constables to protect Brighton and Hove's traffic and security wardens (The Argus, May 8)?
The Argus often reports victims of crime waiting in vain for a police response.
When Brighton's knowledgeable and smart police force was amalgamated with other town forces into a regional bush-fire policing organisation, crime prevention, policing by consent and public support began to diminish.
John Peel, founder of the police service, had a vision of protection of citizens which no longer seems a priority today.
Now it seems the growing image of the police service is as a tool of central Government.
A massive crime prevention opportunity was lost in Brighton and Hove when parking meters were fitted in every street.
They could have been sculpted as dummy six-foot police constables.
Traffic police, even dummy patrol cars, are far more effective than speed cameras.
Losing real police officers with local knowledge may have reduced national security as drastically as the reduction of coastguards.
-John Stanaway, Hove
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