Madam,

I endorse wholeheartedly the sentiments of your contributor Richard Church (Cambrian News, 10 March) concerning the empirical aspirations of our police and crime commissioner. All other areas of the judicial process are outside his remit and can only retain its status of impartiality by remaining so. His fiscal management is lamentable and wasteful in the extreme when taken in the context of the lack of effectiveness he engendered within Dyfed-Powys Police. However, what is anathema to any right-thinking person is the politicisation of the role of the person or body overseeing the police, whether Conservative or Liberal Democrat. The concept of the role of crime commissioner is yet another unwelcome import from the United States and manifests itself in the USA with flamboyant costly political campaigns. The outcome invariably results in political affiliation within the police commissioner role. The impartiality of the police role is already compromised by dictate from the Home Office; do we as a nation wish to discard the last vestige of independent and judicious action by our police forces by inviting politicisation at the next command level?

Yours etc

Allan Phillips

New Quay.