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Traffic Wardens’ attire not suitable

Jul 28, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Permit me space in your column to share my view on the topic, “Traffic Police fitted with bowties!”
Not so long ago, some police traffic ranks were seen on the streets of Linden town attired in khaki shirts and black trousers.
Quite recently, a change was instituted, whereby, they are now dressed in white shirts and the usual black trousers but what is very amusing, is the introduction of a bowtie on their necks, which makes them appear as waitresses or attendances in a gambling saloon.
During my childhood, I was subjected and was fitted with a bowtie to attend church, which I had to wear or my mother would have beaten the hell out of me, but it’s something I mentally rejected.
It’s my opinion, “a bowtie makes a person or people appear as servant inside houses of those who existed many centuries ago”.
I’m not a long-tie person either, but I would have preferred the traffic wardens to be dressed with long tie which would have made them look better, even though, long tie around necks have its historic stigma for a particular ethnic group.
Taxpayer’s money must be spent properly, for example, “if a traffic police works in the sun daily with white shirts, how would he or she look in their white attire in a few months of washing and wearing regularly?”
A change must come, but it must be for the better and not just for change.
Winslow Parris

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