highly publicised crashes of Police vehicles in recent months. Mr. Scott is absolutely correct to be concerned. Indeed his concerns must reflect those of the public. High speeds by the Police are dangerous and we think they are too often unnecessary. The public gets the impression that Police vehicles with lights flashing and sirens blaring are often being driven by someone who is simply late for lunch.

It is also true as Mr. Scott suggests that Police drivers need special high speed training. The demands on them are greater than those on ordinary road users because they are sometimes required to use high speed amid the chaos on Bermuda's roads. It is not always easy for Police drivers.

What we object to are the suggestions he makes to send Police drivers to driver training school in the United Kingdom. The Police Service already sends officers to the UK for training but usually for training at a much higher and more complex level than driving school.

How many officers would Mr. Scott propose to send to the UK? Twenty, 100, 200? The cost would be astronomical to Bermuda. It also seems peculiar to us that Mr. Scott, who often decries just about everything about Britain, is now suggesting that we should train Police drivers there.

First there would be the high cost of transportation to Britain and the cost of housing these officers in the UK even if the Government there was generous and provided the actual training free to Bermuda, which it might well do.

Then there is the time officers would be outside Bermuda and away from their regular duties. If trained in Bermuda, they could be off duty for driver training a few hours a day and still available most of the time for regular service. Then too there might well be overtime to cover their shifts while they were in Britain.

A much more sensible suggestion might be to send several officers to the UK and have them turned into top driving instructors who would return to Bermuda and train other drivers. Surely it would be better to train the drivers under the conditions which exist on Bermuda's roads, conditions they will have to drive through, rather than on the country roads of Wales as Mr. Scott has suggested.

For reasons which are unclear to us and to the public Mr. Scott finds it impossible to leave the Police alone. He has no understanding of the example he sets for other people or of the animosity he fosters toward the Police Service. Now he has made what is not a sensible or a well thought out suggestion and it does not bode well for a "government in waiting'' or for the unnecessarily expensive plans the PLP might implement if it came to power.