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PRISONERS now have a toll-free direct line to the State Ombudsman's office to complain about police.
But the Office of Police Integrity denied it is trying to drum up complaints after failing to prosecute a single officer in 18 months of operation.
A spokesman for the police corruption watchdog also denied it offered inducements to prisoners to name corrupt police.
"Of course the OPI talks to prisoners, because they often make complaints," he said.
"There is definitely no suggestion of financial inducements. We can categorically say the OPI has offered ... Read more
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AllAfrica.com - Washington, US
07 December 2005
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Indiscipline is Slowly Creepin
EDITORIAL
December 7, 2005
Over the past few days, the public has been inunda
Just the other day there was a disturbing report in the press of police officers and members of the army who went way outside their duty and forced people to engage in unnatural acts.
As reported in our yesterday edition, the officers allegedly forced a group of people to engage in a sexual orgy much against their will. This by itself is morally irreprehensible.
The unfortunate thing is that this transgression was done on visitors. Reports say the victims are Zimbabweans. In our culture, we revere and keep the best for visitors, but these officers did the exact opposite and showed their worst to visitors. If it is true that such an incident happened, we can only say with shame that this does not represent us.
It is unlike us. The officers have not been good ambassadors of the Setswana culture that we are so proud of. We do not want such immoral acts to be visited upon anybody, but the fact that this abuse was allegedly visited upon Zimbabweans is bad enough. Of late there have been some low-level skirmishes between Batswana and Zimbabweans and this incident will not help the deteriorating relationships.
We however trust that Batswana and Zimbabweans are much more sane to know that this is an isolated incident that should be avoided in the maintenance of good relations between the two neighbourly nations.
As Batswana and Zimbabweans, we have enjoyed fraternal relations that should not be spoilt by this incident.
The goodwill that exists between Zimbabwe and Botswana cannot be destroyed by a single infantile act of foolishness.Batswana and police authorities should be concerned that there are occasional slip-ups that are slowly creeping into the service and it is these incidents that will tarnish the good name of the police service and the integrity of Batswana. Just yesterday, two other police officers were hauled before the magistrate court for breaking into an office with the sole purpose of stealing.
Of course, these people do not constitute the police service. We are fully aware that the service is made up of committed and diligent officers who hold true to their oath. Authorities should be resolute in stemming out acts of indiscipline in the service.
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