There is no doubt you and your charges are doing a good job keeping criminals and other unwanted elements at bay. It is a difficult, but patriotic duty you have. And we commend you for mostly work well done. Suffice to say, when we experience any threat to our lives – be it from robbers, rude drivers, bad mannered neighbours or partners, it is to your offices that we rush. We even depend on your officers to certify documents. On the whole it is work they do meticulously. However we have this one thing against you: discipline appears to be an endangered virtue within the police service. We will be the first to admit it is only a ‘few rotten apples’ that are spreading their rot in the institution. These are professional pickpockets who have mastered the art of demanding and receiving bribes. We meet them on our roads when they stop members of the public for obvious road offenses, but choose instead to demand a bribe to allow the offender to go. We hear horrible stories of how cops allowed a suspect or potential criminal to walk and then commit other crimes.
Then there are dockets that simply go missing from police lockers. We know the root cause of all this is money. Some of your officers are only too happy to take a bribe.
