Latest update November 26th, 2024 1:00 AM
Where is the police public relations officer?
Dear Editor,
Does the Police Force not have a Public Relations Officer?
Even if the Force does not have a specific individual responsible for its relations with the public, didn’t common sense tell the police that we needed a major information drive to sensitize the public to these first time structures in Guyana?
Trinidad has had these overpasses for years now, and they still have the occasional person being killed on, for example, the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, because there will always be the dimwit who thinks he/she is faster than a motor vehicle.
So I doubt that we will be able to stop such persons altogether. However, just having the constable on duty telling some individuals who happen to be there at peak hours when the traffic police are on duty, won’t get the message across to the majority of road users.
We need a public education campaign in the schools, in the newspapers (with some nice, big headlines – surely we can get all the editors to join in the battle for safety) and even more, on the radio stations and on TV, drawing in all the popular announcers to spread the message.
We are not ever going to get everybody to stop running across the roads. But at least we can minimize the problem and avoid creating resentment for our traffic officers by dragging 45 people in one day to the already overcrowded courts.
Pat Robinson Commissiong
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