Lack of police investigation

Thank you for publishing each week Richard Williamson’s excellent column, Country Walks.

I collect these in a folder, often head out with my family on their routes, and would welcome a book of them.

On June 24, the week’s walk was up to Amberley Mount. The suggested parking place, at the junction of High Titten and Mill Lane, was where, unfortunately however, my car was broken into and several thousand pounds’ worth of belongings stolen, on the otherwise beautiful evening of Sunday, June 6.

A local told me, moments later, that in May ‘they did a whole row of cars’. This suggests some level of organisation, rather than expediency.

Yet the police, however polite, offered nothing beyond a crime reference number. This despite several stolen items being found ten days later in a neighbouring field, including a valuable laptop, doubtless covered in fingerprints. Still no interest.

“As the laptop has been out in the elements for a number of days any potential forensic evidence will have gone,” they wrote.

You often publish doublepage spreads in which the Police and Crime Commissioner sets out the vital work of the police in communities in Sussex.

But my own story raised many more from friends and neighbours I told, warning against leaving cars unattended in beauty spots.

How then to enjoy Mr Williamson’s fine walks? I hope the police might respond to you, if not to me. CHRISTOPH WARRACK

Stopham, Pulborough