Should we have to carry a mobile phone by law?

HIGH Court judge Sir Geoffrey Vos has suggested that carrying mobile phones could be made compulsory (Mail). Such a law would require us to reveal our location and identity to the authorities at all times. This totalitarian measure would make random police demands for everyone’s papers look liberal by comparison. Of course, this would not make us any safer, as our softtouch criminal justice system is unwilling to protect us from the dangerous and the wicked. At one time our judges understood

instinctively that their role and that of the common law was to protect our freedom. Today, human rights and an obsession with equality have replaced common sense and the protection of our liberties. OTTO INGLIS, Edinburgh.

AN INTERESTING idea from Sir Geoffrey Vos seeking to track everyone via their mobile phone for crime prevention. Would there be sufficient police to investigate every violation? Maybe a more practical method of crime prevention could be achieved by mandatory testing for illegal drug

use by people seeking benefits and those in state employment, from sweeping the streets to sitting in the Houses of Parliament. DON TROWER, Braintree, Essex.

CONTRARY to what Sir Geoffrey Vos believes, I do not believe most people have accepted growing levels of surveillance. CCTV was foisted on us — I wasn’t asked if I wanted it. Why should I be tracked between my house and anywhere I go? We are having our freedoms taken away from us and no one is challenging it. PETER WOODMAN, Redcar, Teesside.