REGARDING the story ‘£80k taxpayer lost to deal with travellers' camps’ (Daily Echo, September 4). Cllr Oakley said, what makes people angry is that travellers commit these acts and get away with it, but if anybody else did it we'd be arrested and dealt with.

Well, we're all getting fed up of asking the same questions, whilst politicians, councillors and police all shrug their shoulders, say "tut tut", mutter vague and irrelevant excuses, and look the other way.

Is nothing to do with official sites not being available for the travellers; it's to do with trespass, breaking the law, committing civil and criminal offences, wanton destruction, public nuisance offences, litter dumping and fly-tipping, breaking all the rules, and so on.

New laws aren't needed, they already exist. And if the general public committed any of these transgressions they'd be arrested, prosecuted and fined. So I'll ask, yet again, why are travellers excused from all the usual consequences of their antisocial and illegal actions?

And councils, you know who they are, you've got all the dates and evidence, you've got their vehicle registration numbers and photographic evidence; prosecute them and send them the bill, just like you do with any other miscreant. Ditto the police.

And councils and police want to ignore the problems, are too frightened to act, or want us to foot the bills on behalf of the travellers, please explain why, and then do something to change the ridiculous year after year problems, nuisances, offences, avoidance of social and legal liability, and costs.

Please!

ROGER HORROBIN, Labrador Drive, Poole