Police aren’t interested

Sue Smith’s letter (July 8), essentially about noise pollution but really about getting appropriate public agencies to actually do something about it, certainly rings a bell with me and no doubt many others.

In Upper Hutt, we have the same moronic activities of boyracers leaving their mark everywhere, not to mention the excessively noisy exhausts from cars, motorbikes and trucks.

But complaining, as I have found over many years, is really a waste of time, despite the plethora of laws and regulations concerning compliance, due to the fact both city councils and police are not really interested.

In correspondence with the head of traffic enforcement at Police Headquarters, I was somewhat dismayed when, while apologising, he said that enforcement of these laws and control of miscreants and other offenders were no longer a priority.

So you can flout the laws with little chance of being caught and this is exactly why they do it.

Civil disobedience will continue to increase until either public pressure forces the powers that be to act or we eventually attain silence with 100 per cent electric vehicles.

But Sue Smith, keep trying, you are not alone.

Wayne Kitching, Upper Hutt