Anyone who believes that UK police have been investigating, and prosecuting, all reported crimes during the last twenty years must have been living in Outer Mongolia, or some secluded funny farm.

We have a system known as screening, which allows the police to ignore crimes when they see little chance of getting a result which would justify the expenditure of cash and resources necessary.

If you are mugged, or your car is stolen, they will give you a crime number for your insurance company, but there is very little chance that there will be any real investigation, unless they believe that a series of similar crimes are the work of the same criminal(s).

If they do catch someone, the CPS will not permit a prosecution unless the evidence is such as to provide a virtually certain conviction.

To think that any great effort will be made to enforce anti hunting law is naive in the extreme.

I can't recall the British people ever being asked if they minded that their police force should decide whether laws should be enforced, and criminals punished, but take my word for it, it happens every day.

Don T.