Police Supervision
Sir, —The police, however: active and numerous, can-' not be übiquitous; but when! one has lived for about seven years within a few hundred yards of a busy suburban crossroads and shopping centre (Ilam-Clyde roads)— which one has visited on an average at least twice a day, and has not seen a policeman of any kind on duty in the area more than half a dozen times during that period, one is prone to draw conclusions that, admittedly, may not be wholly justifiable. In this connexion, apart from at least two audacious’ burglaries, the neighbourhood provides an arena, particularly on week-ends, for the activities, on bicycles, motorcycles or in cars, of some extremely tiresome and irresponsible youths.—Yours, etc., SPARE A COPPER. May 16. 1961. [The Superintendent of Police (Mr C. L. Spencer) said: “I would be pleased to discuss the matter with the writer if he or she would care to call on me.”]
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 6
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