Cops with little or no brains

Clearly, someone is responsible. But after this farce that the police seem to revel in, who will believe anything that they come up with. I had mentioned on another occasion, when a politician was tried and a hitman was the lucky devil that enjoyed immunity from prosecution, that this movietype system of getting a crook to rat on fellow criminals will not work.

Now see if I was wrong. Obviously some are going to benefit from this clearly deplorable and shamelessly disgusting monkeying with the law by our own citizens in the fraternity, while others are making the most undignifying mileage in their political career. People will speculate about who is a crook in real life, who was set up and who was primed to call names that are not the true names.

But at the end of it all, the public’s perception is that the police, arm in arm with the government are doing what they very well please and not a damn dog bark.

Any day, anyone going about their business can expect to be killed even while smiling with the killer a moment before. While the police did not send anyone to commit a crime (these days even that is questionable), it is their job to investigate the matter as thoroughly as they are capable, using the tools of the trade.

But, what are the tools of their trade?

Let us see: two ‘o’ levels or less, inability to pass a simple aptitude exam, cannot spell or read properly, tall, some kind of weight, little or no brains, ability to brutalise innocent citizens — and these stars go up the promotional ladder or someone will have to answer to the union. So eventually we end up with a Commissioner with a sneering public attitude, little self-confidence, zero tolerance for those who criticise him and obvious reluctance to rock the boat.

If anyone has the country at heart and would like to see better being done in the police service, I would suggest they donate all their Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Agatha Christie and Enid Blyton books to the Force’s library. The least the government could do then is employ someone(s) to help the constables to learn to read them. Lord knows that any scientific form of sleuthing will only befuddle the tiny brains of these ‘upholders of the law’.

SUE SANKAR

Chaguanas