Remit of the police

Sir – Now that Dame Cressida Dick has, five years after the event, publicly acknowledged that the police should not have said that Carl Beech’s serious allegations were “credible and true” (report, September 18), perhaps we should recall that she has recently averred, after Sir Richard Henriques called for police who worked on the case to be prosecuted, that the officers involved had all acted in good faith.

It would be instructive if she were now to tell us whether she recognises a dividing line between decisions that should be made by the police and those that should be made by juries. Oliver Lodge

London SW16