I READ (LET, September 24) that Higher Croft in Blackburn has now become a "no-go" area for buses due to the behaviour of a bunch of kids.
In the same edition, I read of a police superintendent having some magical powers for solving crime.
Well, perhaps he could get out of his chair and go and practise his mumbo-jumbo on Higher Croft and solve the problem for everyone.
It seems to me that the present-day police force has never heard of the offence of "conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace" or of the "Ways and Means Act"!
The present situation on Higher Croft would never have been allowed in the days of Chief Constable George Looms and Inspector Cyril "Enty" Entwistle.
JOHN D BOLTON, (ex P.C. 101, Blackburn Borough Police, Greenside, Ribchester.
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