Sandra Wyatt, of Burton Lane, Galmpton, Kingsbridge, writes: I have been a reader of the Gazette for many years and have rarely felt the need to express an opinion. However, I feel outraged by the salacious scandalmongering written in your article of March 6. I am referring to the slur cast on the Devon and Cornwall police following an officer being sacked after a disciplinary hearing regarding a sex allegation. the case was actually regarding an officer in Cornwall – geographically a long way from our area, so why report it in the South Hams? Officers in our area are ­exemplary in the way they respond to grizzly and disturbing cases day in and day out, providing support for our community. I question the motives for undermining such a service: is it lack of news this week, or a gross lack of judgement? Let's just hope that it is the former and that the Gazette is not going to stoop to the level of the sensationalistic tabloids.