Oh dear, what a nightmare that must have been for the poor protected species, known as cyclists (Oxford Mail, May 24).

Not only did Thames Valley Police find some real police officers, not pretend Police Community Support Officers, but then found someone who remembered why they are paid by us - to enforce the law.

For cyclists who, for years, have been used to cycling on pavements and through red lights, ignoring all the rules of the road, safe in the knowledge that Thames Valley Police and their council partners would totally ignore them, this must have been traumatic.

I noticed from your photographs that the police and the council, obviously being out of practice, did not get it quite right. Where were the army of councillors, stress advisers and trauma management teams to comfort and placate the poor, shell-shocked cyclists?

Hopefully, now having some practice, we might see police officers continuing this.

Or was it a one-off exercise?

Perhaps they might now do the same with cycling on the pavements in Headington.

This should average out at about 80 per hour, so for four hours work at £30 a ticket, this would make £9,600. Not bad.

I'll do it myself if I can keep the fines.

Maybe I am cynical, but when the police return to doing this routinely, every time they see it, not as a photo opportunity, then I will say well done.

Derek Smith, London Road, Headington, Oxford