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The unprofessional few in the police force
Dear Editor,
I am writing to bring to your attention the behaviour of a police officer on the Essequibo Coast. On the 21st of June 2013 at approximately 11:23am on the Essequibo Coast Public Road, I was pulled over by a female traffic rank who came to me and did her routine checks.
I was given a ticket for failing to exhibit my certificate of fitness. I then made a phone call home to find out if the above mentioned document was mistakenly left at home. During my conversation on the phone another male traffic rank by the name of D’Andrade approached me and started shouting at me in the most blatant manner saying that I must drive up because there is another vehicle behind me.
As I was just going to pull a little more into the corner he started shouting at me again saying that if I keep the phone to my ear he would charge me again, so I decided not to pull in the corner. I stayed where I was pulled over and then told him that I cannot drive while conversing on my phone, but he still kept on shouting at me.
I asked him the reason for his continued shouting at me and if that’s the way he talks to people because I am not an animal.
But that still didn’t change his tone. Is it because of my humble and innocent behaviour to him that I was being handled in this manner by this rank? If that is the way police officers will behave towards ordinary civilians then it means they don’t have any training.
It’s embarrassing and glaring in the eyes of the public to see how very unprofessional and unethical some police officers are in the way they perform their duties.
Raoul Nauth
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