I REFER to your front page (Evening Times, September 16) about a top cop being paid £60,000 to stay at home for more than a year.

This is a shocking waste of taxpayers money. And how come it's taken so long for the authorities to investigate one officer?

If the Crown Office isn't taking any action against him, what's the problem? In your article you say this man is now subject of an internal investigation.

What have they been doing for the past year? The longer the police drag their heels over their internal inquiry, the more money the public have to pay.

Something has to be done to make this system of investigating police officers more robust.

A McDonald Ayr

Not healthy

I AM concerned to hear already stretched A&E services in Lanarkshire could be feel the strain when with the old Victoria Infirmary closes and the new Southern opens.NHS Lanarkshire say that may result in increasing number of patients using Hairmyres Hospital.

Of course new facilities are needed in Glasgow but this should not be at a Lanarkshire's expense.

James Watson Airdrie

Parents' pain

MY heart goes out to all those parents who are fighting to find out what happened to their babies ashes.

I see in your article on Monday that Glasgow parents have now received a letter from Dame Elish Angiolini telling them how she is going to proceed with her investigation into the scandal.

It's going to be a very painful time for them all and, by the sounds of it, a long drawn out process in which they will have to relive the pain of losing a baby and also not knowing where their baby's ashes are.

The unfortunate thing is that they may never get the answers they need to help them grieve for their children.

I cannot begin to imagine how they must be feeling right now.

But the very sensitive coverage in the Evening Times in recent months has helped me understand a little of what they are going through.

Mrs A Murray Castlemilk