WILL we see another letter from D.N. Thomson ('Too much time on gypsy charter', Mailbox, January 25) when Merseyside Police launch their policy for the elderly or for the disabled, asking why it is that so many people are working to ensure equal rights for those communities?

Or maybe we will be able to read a challenge as to why the needs of the Black or Asian communities are being considered because their aren't many of them in West Kirby?

I await these letters, and their responses, with interest.

The needs of these communities are being considered, as all are, in response to the Stephen Lawrence Report findings. Merseyside Police are responsible for policing everyone who either lives in Merseyside or who has reason to visit.

D.N. Thomson obviously does not appreciate the efforts of Merseyside Police to want to have equality and diversity in action - is s/he asking that the police break the law?

There are laws now that require organisations to develop a Racial Equality Scheme.

There is also a Race Relations Act to protect Ethnic Minority groups which has included the Gypsy and Irish Traveller communities since 2000.

Maybe D.N. Thomson doesn't want gypsy and traveller communities to be accorded the same treatment as everyone else around them - but surely not. That would be racist wouldn't it - the Race Relations Amendment Act gives protection to the Gypsy and Irish Traveller communities against unequal treatment?

I'm sure D.N. has fallen into the same trap as Cllr Foulkes - that of believing media hype of Traveller 'invasions' and hasn't stopped to think of the families he serves, living in Wirral.

Does D.N. Thomson realise that Cllr Foulkes was incorrect in his repeated statement that there is a Traveller site in Ellesmere Port? And what does that have to do with Wirral?

Some of his/her comments would suggest a desperate person scrabbling for a life-raft for support in a world growing too equal, too frightening; having to insult Merseyside Police, various individuals, the Irish, the largest ethnic minority group in Wirral, and the Irish Government, which recognises the efforts of its ex-pat communities.

Winefride Lawlor,

Irish Traveller Project

Co-ordinator,

Irish Community Care Merseyside,

Duke Street, Liverpool.