Dear Editor,
The police at Suddie on Monday ignored my co-operation and offer of assistance in their failed attempt to apprehend a diminutive teenager who escaped from the front stairway of his friend’s home at Onderneeming in the presence of four ranks. The teenager was wanted for questioning in connection with a report made by his grandmother some days ago after she discovered three hundred and ten thousand dollars missing from her Adventure Sands home.
With the victim lacking knowledge of her grandson’s whereabouts, it was only after certain information surfaced she visited my Suddie home and in my company went to make contact with the police in the hope of retrieving some of the stolen money from her grandson.
The sickly woman who is well known to me caused me to provide information to a CID rank who was told that the grandson could be located at that moment just around the corner. The immediate reaction from the rank was that no police vehicle was available, which caused me to suggest to him that I would provide transportation at my expense; however, for reasons best known to the officer he rejected my offer.
The distance could have been covered in five minutes on foot, but the waiting time was much longer before a police vehicle was available.
It is common knowledge that a wanted person on seeing a police vehicle stop would try to escape, and I insisted that the rank should not come to a halt in front of the house. On my arrival at the scene, however, it was parked right at the entrance to the building. The rank having disregarded my advice the wanted man ran away.
An allegation was made at the station against a rank in his presence of having collected a given amount of money in the matter, and so the escape did not come as a surprise.
Such sloppy work on the part of the police cannot be tolerated and it leaves much to be desired from the standpoint of the public.
Yours faithfully,
Baliram Persaud
