I read with alarm your piece regarding the Spy Van.

While crime has become a serious blight in many people's lives, this proposed solution is as equally worrying.

Surveillance is not the answer to all social ills. Of course there will be those who argue that if you are doing nothing wrong, you will have nothing to hide, but that is not the point.

We have the right to live without constant surveillance and monitoring. I would much prefer that the money for the scheme was spent on education or training schemes rather than instilling a culture of fear.

Jonathan Platt

Catterall Crescent

Bradshaw

Bolton