I cannot understand what Tim Siret (Friday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints), was suggesting in his reply to my letter of May 25 regarding the conduct of three or four police officers who, in my opinion, were rude and disrespectful to the Home Secretary during the annual conference of the Police Federation.

Police officers should be intelligent and, above all, fair and open-minded. I felt that the men in question fell short of this, because everyone knows that due to the financial mess in the whole of Europe, cuts had to be made in every part of the public sector. This includes the police and this would have been the case whatever political party was in power.

Tim Siret’s letter was a tirade about the shortcoming of the capitalist system and other like matters, which appeared to me to be straight out of a hymn book owned by a fully paid-up member of the Socialist Workers Party.

My point, Mr Siret, was that the men I referred to in my letter fell short of how I would expect police officers to act and nothing more.

Do you agree with me or not? I do not think you do.

Fair enough. All it means is that you have a far lower standard of requirements of our police service than I do.

Norman Roper, Stow Avenue, Witney