Where would we be without the Police?

[onlymark]

Where would we be without the Police?

elkoshary.com/features/where-would-we-be-without-police

[bazfaz]

I had a helping policeman in Tunisia. I was driving a rented car when he stopped me in a lonely place. He inspected my passport and could find nothing wrong so he went on to my driving licence which was also in order and finally the car's papers. He said that the car lacked a fiche technique (test certificate). I could drive the car no further. Was there no way out? Yes, he said, I could pay on an the spot fine and that would make the car drivable again. I agreed but stipulated I would need a receipt to present to Avis on returning the car. The policeman thought about this a bit and then decided I could drive on after all.

I don't think he had ever been asked for a receipt for a bribe before.

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Here in New Orleans,the police department,N.O.P.D. is referred to as NO Police Dept.
Need I say more?

[auntieannie]

what dedication!

Here it takes 5 burly policemen in their finest hi-viz equipment and surgical gloves to remove one homeless drunk from the large open private garden surrounding the Cathedral. We need to send them to Egypt for training!

[onlymark]

I am quite wary of the Police here, as you would expect. I went ballistic at a car full one day and told them they weren't proper Policemen. But it turned out Ok. Other than that I try very hard to avoid them.

[hwinpp]

Attacked robber to face charges

THE sole survivor of a brutal mob attack on three suspected robbers that took place late last week in Dangkor district is expected to be transferred from police custody to Prey Sar prison early this week, and police have filed a complaint against him at Phnom Penh Municipal Court, the district’s deputy police chief said Sunday.

“We have filed the records to Municipal Court prosecutor Plang Sophal against the living robber. The primary charge is robbery,” Choup Sokheng said. Plang Sophal could not be reached Sunday.

A group of 400 villagers on Thursday evening attacked three men with sticks, knives, stones and poles after they allegedly stole a motorbike from two young women in Kandal province’s Ang Snuol district, Dangkor district police chief Born Sam Ath said.

Two of the men died at the scene of the attack, but 27-year-old Sok Siet, the subject of the complaint, survived.

Chan Soveth, a senior investigator for the rights group Adhoc, said Sunday that such vigilante killings used to be common, but had tapered off in recent years.

“It was very common nationwide before 2006, but it had decreased since then. Now we are concerned that more mob killings will occur,” he said.

www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010032934424/National-news/attacked-robber-to-face-charges.html

Same story:

Cambodian vigilante mob kills two bandits: police

PHNOM PENH, March 26 (AFP) - A mob of about 400 Cambodians armed with stones, iron bars and wooden sticks, attacked three alleged bandits being held by police, killing two of them, police said Friday.

The incident took place on Thursday night after the three men allegedly used a gun to rob two sisters of their motorcycle on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, said Born Sam Art, police chief of Dangkao district.

He said the women called the police, who engaged in a brief gunfight with the alleged robbers before arresting them.

But about 400 villagers from three nearby communes then "grabbed the robbers from police and attacked them with stones, iron bars, and wooden sticks," Born Sam Art told AFP.

He said two of the bandits were killed on the spot while a third remained critically injured. Police fired warning shots to disperse the vigilante group.

In a bizarre twist, the injured criminal was initially thought to be dead and taken away with the two other bodies, but awoke as Buddhist laymen were preparing to cremate them, Born Sam Art said.

Angry mobs often attempt to take justice into their own hands in Cambodia, where the judicial system is widely believed to be weak and corrupt.

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