PUTTING armed police on the street will surely result in gunfights claiming the lives of innocent people and encouraging villains to arm themselves. Let us not go to the American style of life.

Also, putting police in schools? Who on earth thought up this twaddle? The police are badly wanted on the streets.

How on earth can they stop truancy when they are in schools instead of the streets.

What's this country coming to?

F BOOTH, Bolton Road, Blackburn.