LETTER: Bobbies were on every corner
I'm 76 years old. Just the other day, as I walked home through Eastbourne Railway Station, three rather large ominous policemen with guns appeared. Even at my age I found them a bit scary.
I realise they were there for a reason, to keep me safe and to deter would-be transgressors.
When I was a lad growing up there would be a Bobby (police constable) around every corner and I always felt safe then, even more so perhaps than today.
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Hide AdAlas, successive governments have got rid of foot patrols and replaced them with traffic cops, community officers and CCTV. But what does CCTV do? Catch the transgressor on film – hardly a deterrent.
But then again isn’t prison supposed to be a deterrent? So why are they all full up?
A.R. EDWARDS
Lewes Road