‘There was not a copper in sight’

• IT was no surprise that another person was tragically knifed to death in Gospel Oak, (Calvin Bungisa murder: 25 detectives join hunt for killers as family pleas for help, April 11).

The other Wednesday at about 7.30pm I was on my way to a meeting in West Hampstead. On the way I drove down Regent’s Park Road, Camden High Street, Kentish Town Road and Gordon House Road. There was not a copper in sight.

Camden police are short staffed but, with knife crime endemic in London, surely they should be drafting in officers from out of town and practically having a cop on every street corner.

Having two cops walking side by side is not an efficient use of resources. They should deploy proximity police where one officer walks down each side of the road and they only come together if necessary.

They should have a friendly chat with practically every person they come across, going onto a “stop and search” if they have the slightest suspicion that the person is carrying a knife.

JONNY BUCKNELL
Primrose Hill, NW1