I read with interest the article by Witney reporter Tom Jennings in last Tuesday’s Oxford Mail (Police say sorry for mob handed attack).

Last summer, during the World Cup, my friend was giving me a lift home from a pub in Oxford in his new car when we were stopped by an unmarked police car.

Two policemen got out of the car and approached us. The officers said that we were driving with our fog lights on and this was illegal.

He then asked where we were coming from and asked the driver if he had been drinking.

He replied that he had had one and a half pints, to which the policeman instructed us to switch off the engine and get out of the car because he would have to breathalyse the driver.

In the meantime, two other unmarked police cars pulled up behind us, and one car had two policemen in, while the other had three. So we were standing in the middle of the road surrounded by seven policemen. The first policeman then said he didn’t have a breathalyser kit so would have to ask his colleagues. Neither of them had a kit and therefore he had to telephone the station to see if they could get a kit out to them.

The other two police cars then drove off and we waited for about half an hour before a car arrived with two officers and a breathalyser kit.

My friend was then tested and passed the test so we were allowed to go on our way.

My question to them would be, if they take drinking and driving seriously then shouldn’t they be equipped at all times with a kit?

Three unmarked cars patrolling the area and not one of them with a breathalyser kit suggests that Simon Lock’s comparison with the Keystone Kops is not far from the truth.

David Williams Forest Side Kennington