SIR - Your article entitled Police Slammed over Snoop Stats on Monday, October 27 may seem to have a point but the unmentioned assumption of people like Emma Carr of Big Brother Watch is that several magistrates are necessarily more trustworthy than our British police force.

I would trust our police force with sensitive information before I would trust several of the local magistrates I have known for many years.

In fact many magistrates are little more than local politicians connected to our political parties!

Give me the British police as Big Brother any day!

JIM EVANS Worcester