The write-up headed ‘Police were “ordered” to rush ministers to Parliament’ (April 20) was indeed amusing.

The present generation do not, I am sure, remember the hilarious films called The Keystone Cops; the older generation will certainly know what I am on about.

What struck me most was the word “ordered”.

Who orders the police about?

I wish someone would dig up these Keystone Cops films so people would then understand the farcical state our police force has been reduced to.

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