WITH reference to the front page of the Review (January 10, 2003), how does the public take the Government's policies on crime seriously when criminal damage such as the one described is apparently condoned by the police?
How many such crimes does this criminal have to commit to graduate to the Lord Chancellor's beginners' class and be sentenced to community service such as writing an ode to the Forest of Dean sheep or similar?
It is also shocking that Mr Ho was not give the culprit's contact details to enable him to take a civil prosecution. Are the police aiding and abetting crime or is it time they did their job and brought those detected (in any case only a small fraction of the perpetrators of crimes are detected) to book. And finally is the community supposed to pay for the criminal damage assuming Mr Ho succeeds in pursuing the complaints through the authorities? – V.G. Shenoi, Longhope.