SIR – AS I HAVE AN INTEREST IN POLICING BY non-Home Office police forces, I thought your Case Study article ‘Vintage Port’ (SMT, July 2003, pp22-27) was an extremely useful discourse on the topic, providing lots of salient background information that would otherwise be extremely hard to find.

Ultimately, I think the piece could have benefited from some kind of critique, but it most certainly serves as a robust account of what is involved in policing a major port.

Kiron Reid, Lecturer in Law, The University of Liverpool, (sent in via e-mail)

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Postscript

Many thanks for your comments, Kiron. Independent, third party critiques are (potentially, at least) a useful addition to any article that deals with weighty topics. We’ll certainly bear your suggestion in mind for upcoming features in SMT.