Commuter omnibus operators and the public have expressed concern over
the reckless and violent nature in which the police is enforcing
traffic laws on public transport vehicles in the city.
The ZRP traffic police officers have turned the city center into a war
zone as they are involved in running battles with the equally guilty
kombi drivers.
Whilst the drivers seem to have become a law unto themselves the law
enforcement agents are reported to be showing disregard to the
sanctity of human life in their bid to meet instant justice to
operators flouting the rules.
One commuter ominibus owner of Waren Park who
chose to remain anonymous lamented over the way the police are
vandalising and damaging their property saying this practice is being
done by the police who are supposed to be protecting the people and
enforcing the law but instead they are the perpetrators.
"Varikutiuraira basa nekuti ndakamboreplacer rikadzoka futi pasisina
,saka now takungosiya zvakadaro",said the operator.
The sight of smashed windscreens and a blood stained vehicle and worse
still a bandage on a passenger’s arm are signs of the excesses of
police recklessness.
A victim of the ugly battles between the police and the commuter
omnibus drivers said passengers are the most vulnerable as he was
injured after a police officer smashed the windscreen of a kombi he
was sitting in ending his day at a local clinic nursing injuries.
The question realised by most people interviewed was that, is there a
law that permits these officers to behave in this way? And if it is
illegal how come this behavior is continuing in daylight.
Some of the police officers involved in the operations when probed by
the public on the legality of their actions justified their measures
saying it is an instant way of punishing the drivers caught on the
wrong side of the law and that it might also prevent other drivers
from breaking the law.
However efforts to get an official comment from the ZRP spokesperson
Inspector James Sabau were fruitless as he declined to comment on the
matter.
the reckless and violent nature in which the police is enforcing
traffic laws on public transport vehicles in the city.
The ZRP traffic police officers have turned the city center into a war
zone as they are involved in running battles with the equally guilty
kombi drivers.
Whilst the drivers seem to have become a law unto themselves the law
enforcement agents are reported to be showing disregard to the
sanctity of human life in their bid to meet instant justice to
operators flouting the rules.
One commuter ominibus owner of Waren Park who
chose to remain anonymous lamented over the way the police are
vandalising and damaging their property saying this practice is being
done by the police who are supposed to be protecting the people and
enforcing the law but instead they are the perpetrators.
"Varikutiuraira basa nekuti ndakamboreplacer rikadzoka futi pasisina
,saka now takungosiya zvakadaro",said the operator.
The sight of smashed windscreens and a blood stained vehicle and worse
still a bandage on a passenger’s arm are signs of the excesses of
police recklessness.
A victim of the ugly battles between the police and the commuter
omnibus drivers said passengers are the most vulnerable as he was
injured after a police officer smashed the windscreen of a kombi he
was sitting in ending his day at a local clinic nursing injuries.
The question realised by most people interviewed was that, is there a
law that permits these officers to behave in this way? And if it is
illegal how come this behavior is continuing in daylight.
Some of the police officers involved in the operations when probed by
the public on the legality of their actions justified their measures
saying it is an instant way of punishing the drivers caught on the
wrong side of the law and that it might also prevent other drivers
from breaking the law.
However efforts to get an official comment from the ZRP spokesperson
Inspector James Sabau were fruitless as he declined to comment on the
matter.
