SAD indeed to learn of pensioners being hectored and hassled by young louts (Opinion, July 15) on the Green Park bowling greens in Blackburn.
A large part of the overall problem is the disturbing lack of police visibility in public. Where are the bobbies of yesteryear who effectively walked the street-beat and deterred loutish and larcenous behaviour by their very presence.
And what about the bobbies of today? They're scarcely ever seen. Are they all desk-bound, hidden away in the police stations? A bobbie on foot is a rare sight, except at tragedies and events. And a police car is seen only beetling down the main road, and hardly ever patrolling the backstreets. Not too encouraging.
Regrettably, the police are virtually invisible nowadays, and as long as they shrink from foot and motorised patrols in all neighbourhoods, louts, vandals, burglars and theives will be free to wreak havoc on modern society.
GEOFFREY PLATTS, Blackburn (Full address received).
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