Madam, - Is there something amiss in a country where a decision by the police to enforce the rules of the road over a weekend period is headline news?
I refer to the recent launch, in a blaze of publicity, of "Operation Taisteal" ,which was a repeat of similar "operations" launched from time to time, usually at holiday periods. Indeed, it seems that law enforcement on our roads has taken on a seasonal character with each "operation" having a beginning and an end.
Surely it is time to launch "Operation Law Enforcement" which would continue all the year round in all parts of the country without any attendant publicity apart from that surrounding the periodic publication of Garda statistics. - Yours, etc.,
M.D. KENNEDY,
Silchester Park,
Glenageary,
Co Dublin.