Dear Editor,
I had reason to visit the East La Penitence Police Station and was appalled at the garbage pile-up in front of the eastern gate. And to add insult to injury the drain in front of the southern side is clogged up with weeds.
I have been visiting that station for the past four years once a year to get my vehicle fitness, and I find that there has been no improvement in the surroundings of that station. Both sides of the narrow road leading to the station have huge mud holes and puddles. This makes parking in that vicinity very difficult. It is not a case of no land space, but the deplorable condition that that place is kept in.
I do not in any way blame the police there, but whomsoever is responsible for the upkeep of station and its environs should be ashamed to look at what presently prevails.
The outer roadways could well do with some sand filling in order to facilitate visitors’ parking their vehicles, and it would not cost the relevant agency hundreds of millions to enhance our police stations around Georgetown.
Is this the condition under which we expect our police to dwell? I tend to believe that if the police are given an enhanced environment in which to work, their attitude towards the general public would improve, and so would the image of the force.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
