READING about drug addicts using a Calton tenement as a shooting gallery (Evening Times June 22), my immediate reaction to this is what are the elite pro active intelligence led Police Scotland, with the state of the arts office within spitting distance, doing about this?

They are quick to blow the trumpet when they are helping their pals at the copyright outfit hoover up the fake cigs and T shirts round from Stevenson Street at the Barras while citizens though no fault of their own are put through misery by drug abusers.

This is a disgraceful indictment of Glasgow Council and the police and I commend the Evening Times for highlighting it.

Johnny Mack, posted online

I CAN'T even get the council to sweep the street after their own bin men drop rubbish.

What chance have they got of clearing this up?

Come on Mr McAveety, where are your super cleansing hit squads?

John Davidson, posted online

WE seem to be forever having “inquiries” into this or that, costing millions.

What happens after those questioned are found to be at fault - are they fined or jailed? Is it just a wee slap on the wrist and having to live with the stigma of a public inquiry into their actions?

If that is all there is to it, what good does having the expense involved in an inquiry in the first place?

Fred the Shred, and his banker friends, for example, he attended an inquiry but eventually we find that he and his friends have been found to have done nothing wrong so that they all can retain their millions and gilded lifestyles.

Then we have the most recent “Sir” Philip Green. His evidence to the Commons has just finished and within a day of that he purchases a new jet to match his new yacht, but still thousands of his workers are on the verge of redundancy.

Nothing was gained and everything for his 1,100 employees lifestyles is lost.

Let’s have one final inquiry into having inquiries that don’t achieve anything.

Rosemary Keery, Gordon Drive, Glasgow

READING about the health board planning to shut in-patient beds at Gartnavel (Evening Times June 22), I know people that use this service and it really does work for them and does help them.

To shut this down would be a shameful disgrace and a disaster.

Bill Wilson, posted online