What has Zambia maintained its worst performing police service?
Dear Editor,
Allow me some space in your newspaper to urge our President to do something about police service.
If Zambia police is 4th worst performing entity in the world, surely that calls for swift action to correction the situation.
By now I expected that some heads would have rolled, but it lo it is a forgotten issue.
Even locally our police has continued to be rated the most unethical on the corruption index but nothing has been done about it.
Does this mean we are all happy with our police in its current state? Then why maintain it if it is there just for its men and women to receive their salaries for doing nothing?
Well, nobody is going to correct this rotten situation but Zambians themselves because a country without a professional police service is as good as dead.
Already our dead police is affecting the smooth operations of our Judiciary which has now become the home of nolles and acquittals because the police have stopped doing their work.
For how long are we going to be watching our men and women in uniform collect their salaries for doing nothing as their corruption index keeps rising.
Talk about corruption, our traffic cops have the even the cheek to ignore the minister’s instructions to cut down on the number of road blocks. Still nothing happens to them.
If this situation is allowed to continue, this country will slump into serious lawlessness from which it will be extremely difficult to come out. We all can guess the outcome.
Where I come from in the East (land of wise men) there is a saying that advises that one can safely cross a river then water levels are only above the knee.
In other words, if one attempts to cross the river when the water levels have risen to the chest level, chances are that this individual will be swept but the current and drown.
Please can we see some serious reforms in our police service now by retiring dead and corrupt wood?
Let those with powers please act swiftly to put life in our dead police service which is has become a big shame internationally.