AS I see it, the issue of chief constable Grahame Maxwell is so trivial it should never have reached this situation.

Throughout my working life, you apply for a post or job and the employer considers you against others; but then there is the other way, recommendation.

It has gone on for hundreds of years. So if there are no other underlining reasons for this fiasco, perhaps the authority is at fault, since over the last two public meetings of the North Yorkshire Police Authority, Mr Maxwell heard things not to his liking, such as that the taxpayers of North Yorkshire are contributing £12 million more than Government funding.

But also the authority published on the tax bills that they received £6.3 million in extra Government funding (no need for the cutback in police or staff).

So how would you feel if the boss published those figures (and you have been told to reduce manpower)?

Perhaps the mouse bit back.

Mr P Richardson, York Road, Haxby, York.

• I HAVE spent a long time witnessing the heartache and anger of the dismissal of my daughter from the police for gross misconduct, where there was no evidence.

I find it quite disgusting that chief constable Grahame Maxwell has been allowed to keep his job. He has admitted circumventing the rules to benefit his family.

The report in The Press on Thursday May 12 states that two employees had been dismissed for the same act.

I think he should resign now, taking his massive pension and all the financial benefits of his many years in the police with him, but it will take a long time for the public to regain faith in North Yorkshire Police.

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