With reference to Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson is visited by Essex Police investigating a tweetsaid Mr. Archer: “It’s out of all proportion, isn’t it?”

“People can be so easily offended these days. From my school days someone called you something they shouldn’t, you probably laughed it off.

“But people can take offense very easily, maybe rightly or maybe wrongly, so they just call the police and say, ‘I’m offended by this remark that somebody made,’ and the police look at it, look at it and takes the trouble to send two police officers out to someone’s house on a Sunday morning.”

Mr Archer shared his views on why the police seem to be prioritizing responding to offensive social media posts over criminal activity, which he believes is due to the Southport riots.

“The public is being let down”

Reader Philip Barden had a harrowing experience involving a violent robbery.

Recalling the memory, he said: “I was knocked off my bike by robbers on two mopeds. I was threatened with a taser and my watch was stolen.” Despite calling 999 immediately after the incident, Barden said the police were of no help.

“When I called 999 I was told no action would be taken as the robber had left.” Mr Barden said if police had acted quickly the robbers could have been caught. Unfortunately, only a few days later he was informed that the case had been closed.

He expressed his frustration with the police: “The fact that people are arrested for tweets and you never see a police officer shows the widening gap between public service providers and the public being let down in policing, health, education and most importantly by politics.”

The bard has lost faith in the police’s ability to deal with actual crime and calls for the current police force to be disbanded.