IT was amusing to read the remarks (Letters, June 9) regarding the problems of public relations with the police and, of course, why your correspondent preferred to be anonymous possibly being liable to harassment.

The grievance concerned a car parked regularly in the street with its tax disc expired by a month. When it was reported to the police at Accrington, the reply was: "No action is usually taken until the tax disc is six weeks out of date."

This contrasts sharply with a recent experience I had when, during the night, a red police warning notice was on the windscreen of the car parked in the road outside the house.

The time taken up by the vigilant police could have been saved as scrutiny would have shown the tax disc was displayed on the windscreen, albeit on the driver's side - something, I have since discovered, that is not quite correct if you trouble to discover the regulations.

However, yet more police time was spent in sending a report to the DVLA.

I would have appreciated the police nightly vigilance much more when vandals hammered two nails into a tyre the same week.

J A MARSDEN, Scarborough Road, Blackburn.

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