During my lifetime we have gone from neighbourhood policing with a constable on a bike or patrolling the area on foot to whizzing about in hi-tech cars with all the costly equipment more associated with the paramilitary. Two Echo stories side by side: Closure of Ferndown Police Station and cutting numbers of desks to save over £9million and child abduction worry.

Where did it all go Pete Tong?

Brian Galpin Tatnam Road, Poole