Madam, - I see from your edition of May 29th that Senator Feargal Quinn has rowed in to support Michael McDowell's Walter Mitty cops.
Would the erstwhile greengrocer have let a person with minimal training work in one of his stores, handling sharp knives in the butchery department, for example, or serving at the fresh food counter with only a sketchy knowledge of hygiene procedures?
I hope not. Why, then, does he condone the practice of letting virtually untrained persons out to enforce the law of the land? - Yours, etc,
D.K. HENDERSON, Castle Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3.