IT is all very well for police officers to ask youths involved in a disturbance to fill in a form (Citizen, January 31) but what happens when they flatly refuse to do so or deliberately fill it in falsely?
To ask implies a request and, since a request is by its very nature neither a command nor an order, it may presumably be refused without incurring any penalty. What is a "disturbance" anyway, and is a "disturbance" always a crime?
If the police send a letter to the school and educational welfare officer about a pupil involved in a disturbance outside school premises, what are the school and the educational welfare officer expected to do about it?
Their job is to educate children at school and not to supervise their conduct elsewhere. How can an anti-social behaviour order successfully impose a curfew on a youth or exclude him effectively from a designated area?
John Buckle,
St Alban's Road,
St Annes.
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