Reading through all the current news,views and stories, it appears to me that the police is losing the present battle in investigating
the large drug find.
My assumption is that for every 100 people netted during the investigations, the catch includes several high-ranking police officers,
politicians and of course drug lords.
In this scenario, why have the police not engaged senior retired people of their own or positively offered rewards or declared war on drugs?
What is the use of the views expressed by the retired police Henry Brown and featuring him on the front page for two consecutive days?
Or showing the previous acting COMPOL giving out certificates to someone.
Are they not good resources anymore?
So, the stumbling block in this drug case is the police themselves.
Most of the top brass of the police establishment is incompetent in dealing independently with the involvement of high-profile individuals and they also won’t involve other specialist investigators to protect their own and safeguard their egos.
They guard exhibits and their colleagues tamper with it. How? Isn’t this arrangement similar to the Dracula being put in charge of the blood bank?
You and I know that tampered exhibits don’t have any legs in a court of law to convict anyone.
So, if they can’t handle it, why don’t they deposit it at the military camp?
It does not look like that the Acting COMPOL has the expertise to be in control at all, as administratively, he is junior to many others.
And by now the Minister for Home Affairs or his Acting COMPOL should have been featuring regularly on TV, similar to the appearances
of the previous PS for Health, Dr James Fong, who subsequently became a household name.
Both these gentlemen should have been red hot and spewing fire by now.
Finally; who is going to emerge a hero in the drug case?
None I suppose, as we are fighting a losing battle.
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