A WORRYING trend is occurring in a neighbouring county.

To cut back on police pay and numbers and reduce the Home Office budget, pensioners are being entrusted to man speed traps.

There is a gaping problem in this venture in the development of the Big Society idea – are these people to be compensated for injury and death and offered sickness benefit?

Has a an insurance policy been taken out to take care of these issues?

Or like everything the government set in motion is this something entirely overlooked?

No matter how well intentioned and easily led voters may be, they should be valued and not just costed.

Provision should be made to compensate them if at the government’s behest, they should volunteer and let’s hope that in a year’s time the volunteers will still be able to fulfil the task ahead of them.

ERNEST FRASER-FINNIE, Owls Road, Bournemouth