WITH reference to the letter headlined "We've Paid Too Much For Police" (January 24).

It is the North Yorkshire Police Authority who are the precepting authority in regard to the raising of additional funding requirements for the North Yorkshire Police above those provided by Central Government, not me.

Della M Cannings,

Chief Constable,

North Yorkshire Police,

Newby Wiske Hall,

Northallerton.

Updated: 10:56 Thursday, January 27, 2005