POLICE INERTIATHE Zambia Police Service must ensure that it wins public confidence and to do this, it must be pro-active to protect the weak.It is this aspect of its work that will endear it to the public.We do not know whether the Police Service must wait for orders from the “powers that be” to ensure that it defends law-abiding citizens.This week has seen two interesting examples of what we feel are the failure by the police to act in a professional manner to ensure public order.Consider the ongoing mealie meal trading saga in Chililabombwe in which the local UPND leadership has arbitrary ruled that only its approved traders should engage in the business.This has seen 16 bonafide traders barred from carrying out the business even though they are licensed to do so.What is interesting is that the 16 aggrieved traders, rather than take the law into their hands have gone to court.On Monday, the Chililabombwe Magistrate Court granted an injunction to […]
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