No way to police a demo

THE sight of police officers joining in the demos in London by dancing and skate-boarding does not do their case for more resources any good.

They seem to have forgotten that the taxpayer pays them to enforce the law, not to mollycoddle people preventing the silent majority from going about their business.

This was just the latest manifestation of warped policing priorities, such as not investigating burglaries, but intimidating people who have unwittingly offended a politically correct snowflake.

The police appear to have lost sight of their real purpose and instead see themselves as another branch of social services. Too many chief constables and their deputies with university degrees have been parachuted into senior roles.

Money has been wasted on police and crime commissioners, who are mere figureheads with little understanding of the law, but with a political axe to grind.

MIKE HAIRSINE, Sutton Coldfield, W. Mids.