AN open letter to Della Canning and all those featured in the article of Saturday, May 14.

I was surprised to see you emerge from retirement to comment on a fellow officer of the law. The subject was so trivial by comparison it begs a response.

When you took over North Yorkshire Police, you stressed the need for a police pension fund reserve and said you wanted to improve the force, etc.

In your favour, you did improve police numbers, up to you leaving – 1,670 from 1,450. On the down side, in 2002 when funding was 80 per cent government and 20 per cent precept, you convinced the authority to inflict on the ratepayers of North Yorkshire a massive increase. How strange at that time the Government suspended the cap.

Part of the increase was a large sum for the pension reserve (abandoned), but still being collected – and what about the £28,000 shower in your office?

Those others in the article, MPs etc, are jumping on the bandwagon and are happy to plead ignorance of the above. I trust, madam, you will now fade into the background.

P Richardson, York Road, Haxby, York.