Armed police cannot solve society’s ills

Sir, - The atrocity in Manchester has rekindled the debate about the necessity for arming the police.

This atrocity and other recent atrocities could not have been prevented by armed police.

The core of this problem is a social issue.

Society in the UK seems to have lost its sense of perspective.

We are continually required to defer to pressure group demands, whether they be religion based, or culture based, to allow groups and individuals to behave in ways that are inappropriate to British society

The consequence of that has been an escalation in non-integration into British society by immigrants and asylumseekers and something approaching the creation of foreign enclaves in our cities, where the enclave residents live and behave as they would do in their home countries.

Irrespective of the illconsidered outrage by human rights activists, and false accusations of racism and xenophobia, such tolerance has got to stop.

The suspect in the recent murder of children was reportedly born in the United Kingdom to Libyan parents who had sought asylum here but who have now returned to Libya.

The pattern of these recent atrocities, not only in UK but throughout Western Europe, clearly shows the perpetrators as being from immigrant families.

Surely it is time for national governments to begin taking a nononsense approach to immigration.

People who wish all the advantages of a UK lifestyle should be required to adopt British social and cultural values instead of creating a micro-culture replicating the behaviour patterns of people in the countries from whence they came.

Dress code, social behaviour tuition and English language requirement would be a good place to start.

Derek Farmer. Knightsward Farm, Anstruther.

Picture: Kris Miller. Armed officers from Police Scotland at Dundee railway station.