G METCALFE (Letters June 30) appears to have completely grasped the wrong end of the stick in his implication that the cost of policing hunts is in some way due to a need to control the behaviour of the hunt participants.
The opposite is in fact the case; it is those who subscribe to an animal rights agenda and who attempt to sabotage or protest against hunting while it is taking place who are responsible for the cost of policing hunts (as well as the cost of policing other events like the Waterloo Cup).
Indeed, Sir Geoffrey Dear, former Chief Constable in the West Midlands, and HM Inspector of Constabulary, made precisely this point in his submission to Lord Burns' hunting inquiry earlier this year.
DAVID STOCKER, Public Relations Officer (North West), Countryside Alliance, Lancaster.
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