Police Reputation

On a short visit to the court we met and chatted to a very likable and courteous policeman who was there on another matter. The difference between this policeman and the traffic cop that we were there to deal with couldn’t have been more stark, one was polite and pleasant and a credit to the police while the other was rude and arrogant which left us initially with a deep dislike for all police until we realised that while one represented the police  the other was a traffic cop with all the negative feelings that the public have for these people.

The greatest mistake that John Banks the then minister of police made was when he combined the two enforcement agency’s into one. The result was not to improve the traffic cops image but to drag down the reputation of the police.

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