To refer to the local police as cops will only encourage disrespect among the young people they are trying to help.
It also shows how standards are dropping in public and also by the editorial staff of this and other newspapers.
This is not Chicago. It is Sidmouth.
David Woolley,
Manstone Lane
Sidmouth
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