Despair over avarice at the top of police service

Yet further allegations (Yorkshire Post, September 7) of morally corrupt police behaviour – and I make no apology for using such a strong phrase.

As a child I was taught to look up to policemen, but now with moral bankruptcy endemic in this institution it is not the advice I could give my grandchildren.

We are supposedly protected by this police service, governed by politicians who reward their shocking behaviour by awarding themselves pay rises well above those given to the people of this country – even though we are in a recession which is due, at least in part, to the practices of bankers. Is there no end to it?

The example we are setting for future generations is that they have to get out of society what they can, by any means no matter how wrong, and at whatever cost to others. I despair!

From: Peter Hyde, Driffield, East Yorkshire.

As a police inspector in the early 1980s I was paid a salary and
had a housing allowance. I managed to live on that quite comfortably.

Therefore the question has to be, why does a chief officer who gets a considerably higher wage than a mere inspector need so many perks?

I can understand a car and driver, but to have a credit card, paid for by the police authority, to use for meals out and entertaining as well as foreign trips is beyond me.

Just why do they need massive retention payments?

The question is answered in one word – greed.

As my old mum used to say: “The more they have the more they want.”

I would also ask who authorised the final payments, as they should be made responsible as well.