I AGREE with Mike Luke (Echo, July 16), the drunks and druggies have taken over Weymouth.

The police can do nothing about it as the people are considered ‘ill’ and are therefore a ‘protected species’.

They should take away their alcohol, because there are signs saying ‘No drinking alcohol in public places’ on the Rodwell Trail.

In many towns and cities drinking in non-designated places is an offence. Also, there are groups of children drinking on the Rodwell Trail, where are they getting the booze? Look at the carrier bags and you will see where the booze comes from.

Before anybody sticks up for this scum, I ask you if you’d like it if they moved near where you live, then see if you stick up with them.

The police are only interested in keeping these scumbags from the seafront, but that’s not good enough, chuck them out of town!

Gene Hunt would not have stood for it, the Dorset Police are looked on as a bunch of wimps and the public have zero confidence in them.

D WILCOX, Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth