• AMAZINGLY Chris Fagg of Camden’s Safer Neighbourhood Board failed to mention anything about his beloved Safer Neighbourhoods Teams, (The situation on Camden streets is bad and getting worse, October 18).

Ten years ago they had two constables and three police community support officers for each team, but now they are reduced to two constables.

There are two SNTs sharing responsibility for Camden High Street and, as they are based nearby, they could pool their resources and have a co-ordinated approach to community policing.

They cannot always be proactive with nuisance begging as they sometimes have to target the drug dealers who provide crack cocaine to homeless beggars.

The era of “bobbies on the beat” is at an end, police chiefs declare, according to the Daily Telegraph back in 2015. Why at an end?

It was the specific lack of visible policing since 2012 which has resulted in knife crime hitting a record high, and the homicide rate in England and Wales to reach the highest level since 2008.

Sex crimes, burglary and robberies have rocketed too. You don’t have to be a genius to know that if you don’t have properly resourced and efficiently managed police forces it can lead to anarchy in the UK.

JAMES REDMOND
Mornington Crescent, NW1