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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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