IT is 10pm on a Saturday evening. Outside Marks & Spencer I politely remonstrate with a young moron who is driving down North Street with his windows wide open while he plays rap music at an unacceptably loud level.
He stops, gets out and with his passenger threatens to rearrange my already weathered 62-year-old features. I retreat home to the top end of North Street, where I observe a misnamed community support officer ticketing two residents’ vehicles which ar
e causing absolutely no obstruction whatsoever.
In the disgusting absence of any police presence why is this uniformed officer not instructed, as his title implies, to support the community instead of act as a Babergh revenue collector?
Or is harmless parking deemed more socially unacceptable than a ratepayer getting assaulted?
It’s time our local elected politicians insisted on visible community policing, especially at night.
PETER THOROGOOD
North Street
Sudbury
l Editor’s note: It seems fair to point out that the police community support officer in question is carrying out his publicly-stated brief to crack down on illegal parking in Sudbury, and is not ignoring other problems because of any lack of integrity on his part. Whether you agree with his brief or not is a hot topic – as evidenced by these letters pages since he began work.
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