Policing needs discipline from all

This figure is equivalent to dismissal of 58 police officers every year, and therefore one police officer every week. Rules in the armed forces can be very strict and therefore requiring high level of discipline from individual police officers. Many of us have been subjected to unfair treatment by police officers on our highways, in the streets, and in our homes. Some of the officers, most of whom are our former classmates, relatives, and neighbours tend to lose their humanity once inside their blue uniform.

They think of themselves as the law unto themselves and behave irrationally towards the public who are their customers and partners in the fight against crime and other social ills. Whilst it is a fact that the police cannot be everywhere, or on any particular spot where crime is occurring, it is disheartening to see police arriving at a crime scene an hour or more after the matter has been reported to them.