Crime fighters must have unity

THE EDITOR: Another year, another budget and crime skyrockets into unprecedented realms.  After a series of ineffective anti-crime strategies that were little more than road-blocks, Government’s latest brain storm is the creation of a coalition between the army and the police.  This new crime-fighting unit is to be led by Army Brigadier Peter Joseph, a detail already meeting with resistance as reports imply of police officers being peeved over taking orders from an army official.

The citizenry is definitely fed-up with the series of futile attempts to control the murder and kidnapping spree.  But it is also evident that the armed forces must first adopt unity in lieu of division and pettiness to achieve the common goal.  Once this is accomplished, the focus should be at least to temper the current crisis until more long-term social fixes are implemented to procure and maintain acceptable crime statistics. The Government and Opposition are consistent in charging each other with racism.  Many find the accusations credible and so division, or the perception thereof, is a major societal inhibitor at the helm of our society.  Consequently, our leaders seem to denounce unity, so logic must assume that the wider population have adopted the trait and now espouse various forms of division — a bad lesson learnt well. It follows that the integrity of our leaders remains questionable, a seeming timeless quagmire now creating hesitance among law-enforcers to blindly embrace the latest empirical anti-crime initiative.  Still, it is imperative for crime fighters to find the key to harmonise because unity still makes us strong.

DEXTER J RIGSBY
Mt Lambert