We put a lot of trust in the Police giving them the rights over citizens to stop, question, bugger, hold a person without contact for seven weeks or use their discretion an issue a warning. Those are very special powers and privileges granted to individuals who are selected and trained to understand and uphold the law of our land.
We as citizens in a free democratic society are expected to do our bit to uphold the law and keep our society safe. To report behaviour outside of the law, to answer questions and freely give information that will assist in every way possible the exercise of the Police's work to keep law and order. It is our civic duty, necessary to keep our society safe for all of us.
However individual Policeman do not seem to think this obligation applies to them. When questioned as to who it was within their own ranks that killed a person, suddenly the law that applies to everyone else doesn't apply to them and they can choose to remain silent and not incriminate a friend, a fellow officer.
What? They are in some special protected elite above and beyond the law? Any Officer self-evidently refusing to freely supply information they are clearly known to have that will help determine who was there at the time a citizen was killed by a member of the Police Force should be immediately stripped of his uniform and any residual privileges. This is contemptible and he is an insult to the force and the community that put him their to uphold the law our our land. There is no greater obligation than to serve your society.
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