FOLLOWING your coverage, and especially your Comment on May 11 regarding the chief constable of North Yorkshire, and now the clear division between the readers who see the problematic nature of the post-decision situation, and those of whom the letters of Wojciech Simpson and Keith Chapman (May 13) convey a simple message which seems to come down to “let sleeping dogs lie”.

Do these people need to be reminded that this is England, not some banana republic?

In Gray’s “Elegy written in a country churchyard” (circa 1750) there is the verse:

“Some village Hampton, that with dauntless breast
“The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
“Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest
“Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country’s blood…”

We may never know just who suffered a loss of entry into the police service or indeed, to what heights he or she may have risen, had that opportunity been extended to them, and that is why this decision is so very important.

Mr G Moore, Plantation Way, Wigginton, York.