Don't close the toilets - solve problem instead

9:17am Thursday 8th February 2007

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YOUR report about the closure of the public toilets in Stockton Heath as a result of homosexual activity is yet another example of the failure of the police to tackle serious problems.

Rather than insist that the police take firm action, the council has opted to close down an essential public facility.

The police are, apparently, keen to see the closure of the toilets rather than crack down on those engaging in the antics which you report.

CSO Crellin is reported as saying: "The problem arose as the toilets became used by people for sexually illicit purposes rather than normal use. That warrants them being closed."

Oh no it does not, CSO Crellin!

What it warrants is police action to crack down on those responsible.

We pay our rates and taxes for public services not to have them closed down as a result of illegal behaviour.

This problem has occurred before as I seem to recall. Other toilets have been closed in the town as a result of homosexual activity.

How long will it be before we have no public toilets left? Are the police and Warrington Borough Council afraid of upsetting the gay community'? CFO Crellin's excuse for doing nothing just does not wash.

In the town in which I was raised, the borough police used to immediately crack down on lewd behaviour in public toilets.

But those were the days when police got their priorities right.

Francis Howes Woolston