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Dear Sir,
At last, anti-corrupt action is on the go! At various points, motor vehicles with official registration were pulled off the road and their drivers/users interrogated regarding their mission.
Reports noted the activity achieved over this last weekend. That there are numerous cases of corrupt: deliberate, or incorrect: unthinking, practices at many levels of society is a disappointingly fact of evidence. That someone or somebody is obliged to tackle this matter is need of urgency.
Reports of activity in this urgent regard are now on the go; with, in particular, reference to this last weekend.

Some journeys may have been legal. There were other journeys that would fall in a range that may be described as theft of and misuse of government property. The costs of use, fair-wear-and-tear, of expense, taxpayers’ money for fuel expense comprise this theft and misuse.
The reports noted that members of the NAMPOL and NDF were making many of these illegal journeys.
People who have had experience of uniform duty will remember that there are certain matters with which the individual must not be involved with and, should that individual see or become aware of such a trespass the occasion must be reported to senior authority forthwith. Disciplinary action must be applied in sufficiency to bring the message to the criminals and to all and any other member that this instance gets punishment of a suitable standard.
A good conduct stripe is earned by x-years of undetected crime. Commissioned officers and their subordinates face demotion if and when criminally detected. This occasion saw, according to the reports, senior officials involved, at least one drunken driver identified among other items of criminal interest.
How many times have members of the public been told, when requesting NAMPOL assistance, so no vehicles available? Do we, the public, now know why? From this last weekend's event, it would seem that a thorough shake-up is needed through both uniformed branches from the very top: whence instructions may be issued but are not pursued, to the general rank and file who should have received introduction to and training in observance of disciplinary duties and the rules attending it.
One trusts these various cases and those that are likely to follow will receive full attention from all the relevant sources and that media detail will be made fully available. Then the levels of this country may begin a worthy upward course.
Concerned
Windhoek

 
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Fri 21 Nov - Thu 27 Nov 2008
Volume 22 No.46