I READ with interest your report on the new relocated Squires Caf at Sherburn in Elmet (Bikers cause a storm, April 12). I was there myself on the night. Indeed I have been going to Squires for 40 years, since I was 16, in those days on my BSA Bantam and nowadays on a Kawasaki.

I must congratulate the police officers on duty, two of them in particular, on bikes themselves, who did an excellent job of moving the traffic through the narrow road space left by inquisitive and possibly inconsiderate drivers of both cars and bikes, who had parked at both sides of the very narrow road.

These police officers understood that this new venue had only recently opened and that numbers of bikers were therefore extraordinarily high that night. They mixed with the crowds and as reported one of them stood on a wall and addressed the crowds of bikers, asking if anyone had parked on the road to move it quickly. The same officer then went into the cafe and used the Tannoy system to deliver the same message.

This was an excellent example of community policing working at its best. Let's have more of this sort in the towns and cities, these officers reminded me and many others that this is what we seem to be missing in our present day society

Stuart Wilson,

Vesper Drive, Acomb, York.

Updated: 10:44 Monday, April 15, 2002