The Editor, Sir:

As the ongoing search for the ultimate weapon to slay the monster of crime continues, I think I have found the 99 per cent solution: 'The New Community Home Guards'! This would be a massive recruitment of able-bodied volunteers that would be given the powers of arrest in their communities.

Whereas there may be one, two, three or even four district constables per community, there would be 20, 39 or 40 home guards! Equipped with handcuffs and basic training in law enforcement, they would be in every 'nook and cranny' of the communities.

Citizens would, therefore, be comforted by the fact that the law is close at hand, but most important, almost every household would have a member of the law within it!

I am, etc.,

NATTY MARCUS

nattymarcus@yahoo.com

Minera May Pen

Clarendon

Via Go-Jamaica