All of us are pretty aware of the way our Police deals with general public but after witnessing 2 recent events, I felt an urge to bring this to public light.

1)      I was driving past Hafeez Center and a couple of rickshaws were parked one after the other and causing problems in traffic flow. Suddenly a traffic policy guy comes on his motorcycle and starts off with a slew of abuses (really nasty ones) and asks the rickshaw drivers to move away. Till the time they moved away, they had to face a barrage of abuses. Don’t they deserve respect? Can’t they be asked to move away in a more professional way? Would he have treated someone in a Mercedes in the same way?

2)      I went for a jog to Race Course Park over the weekend and I saw this old guy walk past by me with his wife. An armed police guard was escorting this uncle so I presumed he was some high ranking government officer. This old guy noticed that a couple was sitting in a wood cabin on the side of jogging track in a not so respectable way (they were just sitting too close for it to be public). He waived a hand to his Police guard who just went to this couple and literally dragged them out without saying a word. There were lots of people around and I am sure it would be extremely embarrassing for that couple. Was this the only way to handle this?

How does Police expect us to get respect from us when they don’t know how to respectfully deal with us? I have always had this fear-hate relation with Police thinking that I would not be able to get a fair treatment from them if I ever run into a problem. I hope they realize one day that their attitude is the main reason they fail to get the respect they deserve.

Be the ones to protect us and not the ones to degrade us!!

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