THE BALLAD OF RAOUL MOAT.

The disgraceful response to the eventual demise of Raoul Moat following a trail of carnage caused by this renegade; this appalling popularity, created by his elusiveness, is nothing short of disgraceful. The writer does, however, have little confidence in senior women police officers; their approach is always going to err on the side of caution.

The Moat situation was hot on the heels of the trail of homicides in Cumbria; a different sort of situation, with even more devastating results. This week we read that a trio of men were attacked as they trained for a 125 miles charity walk. This occurrence was at Stalybridge. They were blatantly assaulted by a group of youths, ten in number. The extraordinary aspect of this is, that an older male, around forty years of age, joined in the attack on the fund raisers. In the absence of knives, keys were used as their weaponry.

It has been suggested before that politics and law and order are far too serious to be left in the hands of politicians and the judiciary.



IT'S TIME TO RETURN TO SOME MASCULINE POLICING.