GILES Bradshaw gives the Devon and Cornwall police no credit for using their discretion, Police are failing to enforce hunt Act, Points of view, July 30.

He repeatedly tells us that he means the deer no harm. Whether he needs dogs to flush out deer is, of course, debatable.

My experience of deer is that they show a clean pair of heels whenever creatures of the homo sapien variety are in the vicinity.

This brings me to my previously unanswered question — what are his motives?

Clearly the Chief Constable doesn't believe Mr Bradshaw's activities are on the scale of the willful cruelty the Hunting Act is designed to ban.

He should be pleased the police are not being diverted from the more blatant breaches of the Hunting Act.

G R Holwill

Stoke Hill Crescent, Exeter

(by fax)