Wanton damage

9:57am Friday 18th April 2008

ALL talk no action. For the second time in just a few months. car tyre's have been slashed in the Stoke Road area of Bromsgrove.

On the previous occasion, vandals, who started somewhere in Charford, had caused thousands of pounds of damage by the time they reached the top of Stoke Road. And because most people have to pay the first £100 of an insurance claim, we - the car owners - ended up paying for new tyre's. And still, nobody has been charged.

But the recent incident of vandalism prompted a police statement of advice, which appeared in the article, Tyre attack', in last week's Advertiser/Messenger.

In response to that statement, I would like to say that not everyone has a house with a garage. And some people could not afford to rent one, even if they could find one near-by.

My mother-in-law, who lives in Sidmoor, has had her council owned garage broken into four times in two years -- and again, no-one has been charged.

A lot of people have converted their front gardens to accommodate their car or cars; with security lights and CCTV cameras fitted. And surely they are entitled to expect a reasonable standard of community policing.

Forget the paperwork, what we need are police officers on the streets. And not somebody in uniform telling the public that we are responsible for their failings.

David Mobberley, Bromsgrove.

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