Drug battle and drivers
Mad drivers
ALMOST daily we read about another accident. Recently a friend, in avoiding a car heading towards him, ended up in the ditch. The police, however, charged him with dangerous driving!
It seems, according to statistics released, most accidents were caused by speeding, overtaking around bends, drink driving, falling asleep and using mobile phones. These are among the 18 to 40-year-olds, if I remember correctly. It’s alarming.
And it’s mostly young drivers. To feel the speed.
Whenever I am on the road keeping within the speed limit, hosts of cars continue to overtake me on the double highway outside Nadi, including buses. How to curb these drivers?
Use demerit points, take away their licences, ban them for a certain time?
To me it seems the root cause might be right at the beginning when a person begins to learn to drive. Did the instructor just teach the techniques of driving, how to use clutch and brakes, how to steer the wheel and the road rules?
Do they teach attitude, defensive driving, showing courtesy? Hope they do.
Should LTA have a closer look at the driving schools where most of the students learn to drive?
What about speed cameras? Do we have enough of them?
It was good the other day to see a motorcycle policeman booking drivers near the airport. There should be more of them.
NORMAN YEE Martintar, Nadi
Losing the drug battle
READING through all the current news, views and stories, it appears to me that the police are losing the battle in investigating the large drug find.
My assumption is that for every 100 people netted during the investigations, the catch includes several high ranking police officers, politicians and of course drug lords.
In this scenario, why have the police not engaged senior retired people of their own or positively offer rewards or declare war on drugs?
What is the use of the views expressed by retired senior police officer Henry Brown and featuring him on the front page of The Fiji Times for two consecutive days?
Or showing the previous Acting COMPOL giving out certificates to someone. Are they not good resources any more?
So the stumbling block in this drug case is the police.
I believe most of the top brass of the police establishment is incompetent in dealing independently with the involvement of high profile individuals.
They guard exhibits and their colleagues tamper with it. How?
Isn’t this arrangement similar to Dracula being put in charge of the blood bank?
You and I know that tampered exhibits don’t have any legs in a court of law to convict anyone so if they can’t handle it, why don’t they deposit it at the military camp?
It does not look like the Acting COMPOL has the expertise to be in control at all as administratively he is junior to many others.
And by now the Minister for Home Affairs or his Acting COMPOL should be featuring regularly on TV similar to the appearances of the previous PS for Health Dr James Fong who subsequently became a household name.
Both these gentlemen should have been red hot and spewing fire by now.
Finally, who is going to emerge a hero in the drug case?
None, I suppose as we are fighting a losing battle.
AJAI KUMAR
Nadi