Response is very disturbing

Concerned Ratepayer from Radiokop writes:

With reference to the article, Renewal leads to death, week ending 3 April.

I find the response from the JMPD spokesperson, Wayne Minnaar very disturbing. It should be the responsibility of all service providers to ensure that their clients can do business with them in a safe and secure environment. For a JMPD officer to say, “The street is public territory” is very concerning as the police and the JMPD are expected to maintain law and order specifically in public spaces.

They are not generally required in private spaces. The touts can only ply their trade with the cooperation of the staff in the licensing office. And the corruption within the JMPD is YOUR problem Mr Minnaar. It is management’s responsibility to weed out corrupt practices. Staff can be fired, relocated and rotated when corruption or inefficiency is detected. It appears that management are stakeholders in all the wrong doings, and thus they do not take any corrective action.

We all know (including Mr Minnaar) about cold drink money and how it has become almost impossible to obtain a driver’s licence legally. I wish there is a way of charging the officers that issue illegal licences with culpable homicide when an illegal licence holder causes a fatal accident.