SIR – Yet another hair-brained scheme from a desperate Government that has lost the fight against crime through its constant undermining of the police. Bringing in non-trained police officers to higher ranks, as has been suggested, will not work.
The ‘Officer Class’ is an idiotic idea and has not been thought through, but knowing the track record of this Government, it will never admit its faults, no matter what.
In the UK we have policing by consent, public consent, not the consent of the Government of the day.
We can vote, but that will be in 2015. So do not put up with this nonsense – lobby your MP to stop this Government riding roughshod over us, they will not be in power in 2015 but will have saddled us with yet another bad idea.
Richard Exley, Little Horton Green
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