I was pleased to read that the council and police were to give CCTV to some of the poor victims in Clifton to help identify the perpetrators of crime in that area (Evening Press, April 8).

Well done and I hope that they will then be able to lead a normal life - without the lead from our council and the police to whom we are forever indebted.

I was pleased to see that at that area meeting one resident had asked how many bad tenants had been evicted to be told 13 in the pipeline with no one yet evicted; it is a start.

I assume that this was a serious meeting as many there had suffered heartache in the past. Why, I ask, is it that PC John Bolton, a very experienced officer, replied in answer to another sensible question - "Where will you put this scum?" - with the words, "There are plenty of spare houses in Hull and Newcastle and why should York people be pestered with these kind of folk".

I have forwarded a copy of PC Bolton's remarks to friends in Hull and let's wait and see if they think it funny. These are the same people who were bombed night after night when I was a boy in the Second World War and were the salt of the earth and not deserving of cheap comments by a police representative.

Brian Rowan,

Fourth Avenue,

Heworth,

York.

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