IN response to last week's article about the lack of police to marshal our St George's Day Parade.

I would like to make it absolutely clear that neither I nor my District Executive Committee have any quarrel with our local police force. They have always been most helpful.

This was an unfortunate occurrence. We do not yet know where the breakdown in communications occurred, but both Inspector Jones and I are looking into this; not for any recriminations, but to try to ensure that there is no repetition in the future.

I have always found our police force to be most helpful, whether over parades or occasions when our headquarters have been the target of vandalism.

PETER NORTH,

District Commissioner.