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Are we to continually cast a blind eye on this situation?

Mar 16, 2014 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
More and more are we seeing in the media reports instances of police officers either neglecting their duty or involved in some shady practice.  This is not to mention the innumerable incidents reported personally by our associates of the now seemingly normal habit of officers demanding bribes from persons perceived to be committing some crime so as to lessen the punishment that they believe is forthcoming.
Are we to continually cast a blind eye on this situation that is daily eroding the rule of law in our society, and perpetuating this evil by people who should be paragons of lawfulness?  It does seem that the administration has no answer to this pervasive atrocity as this infectious disease keeps spreading its tentacles.
I am not aware of the content of police officers’ training programme but, to my mind, one salient ingredient of this should be ethical conduct.  If there is such a component, then by all appearances it has failed to produce the required high standard of behaviour that we must demand from the officers who are entrusted with enforcing the laws, part of which is the setting of a shining example to members of the public.
Ethical behaviour must not be assumed, but must be taught by a deliberate effort by persons who are qualified.  If this has been a part of our police recruits’ training programme, then it was obviously handled by those who were not properly equipped to obtain the required results.  If it had been, then those who benefited from this would have been so schooled that morality and uprightness would have become more or less permanent hallmarks of their character, which in turn would have obviated the unethical culture that seems to be routine among our officers.
I think that some definitive action should be made towards inculcating moral rectitude into the psyche of our policemen, and I am sure that our entire population would welcome such a development.  Let us take urgent action towards this end, and arrest this slide that can eventually lead to chaos in our society.
Roy Paul

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