Nuts to slate police

WHAT a cheap shot from a reader (Letters) regarding the police response to the fuel protest go-slow – ‘maybe they panicked because the doughnut vans were held up’.

Apart from the doughnut reference being an Americanism with no relevance in this country, I wonder if your reader even considered that officers would have had rest days cancelled and been moved from other duties to ensure public safety from an unlawful and potentially dangerous obstruction of highspeed traffic on our highways.

Perhaps, like me, your correspondent would like to see more visible police patrols but I would point out that officers were sufficiently present in the community to result in 7,046 of them being violently assaulted in the execution of their duties last year.

A little more recognition of a thankless and often dangerous job might be appropriate.

FRED MCMANUS, Paisley.