Dear Editor,
With reference to your editorial of 26.5.08, ‘Middleton Street,’  I would like to ask if you were an unarmed policeman and you came under rapid gunfire would you pursue that criminal without backup?  If you saw an offence being committed blatantly in front of your eyes would you ignore it? Are not policemen and women human too, and don’t they have families?

Everyone wants the police to do their job but when they do, they are confronted with condemnation, or else it is not mentioned by the media or so-called politicians, who instead of backing the lawmen, always find a negative side, especially that coming from the families of so-called innocent people. This makes the police’s job difficult……