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Dec 21, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I wish to refer to the article in your yesterday’s edition of a police officer’s receipt of a number of awards. As I read the article, I was both amused and dazed as to how this individual was able to be labelled with these prestigious titles when my knowledge of his work indicates otherwise.
I have known the individual for many years, dating back to when he was stationed at Grove Police Station and Providence Police Station. During these times, he was known for collecting inducements and begging for ‘beer money’. To date, he is known for abusing his power, victimising drivers and being a blatant hypocrite.
I can substantiate the latter by pointing to the fact that this police rank, who harasses and embarrasses people for tint, drives a heavily tinted motor vehicle himself. When questioned of this on one occasion, he replied to me by stating that ‘certain police with high rank like me, is allowed tint’. Can I see the section of the law that states this?
And in the former case, recently I was victimised (there are persons who can attest to this) by the police rank because I refused to ‘leave a raise’ on one occasion.
It appears as though victimisation, abuse of power and harassment are recognised and rewarded in the current system. This reward system will force officers to be unnecessarily inflexible, harsh, draconian and petty at the cost of people’s time and faith in the system.
We ought to be careful of what actions we seek to incentivise and what performance indicators are used to consider an officer as the ‘best’.
Fearful of being further victimised.
[Name withheld]

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