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Inquiry into embassy police ro
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has ordered an inquiry after a Muslim constable was excused from guarding the Israeli embassy in London.
Sir Ian says he wants an "urgent review of the situation and a full report".

The Sun newspaper said the officer was reassigned on "moral grounds" as he objected to Israeli actions in Lebanon.

But the Association of Muslim Police Officers said it was a "welfare issue" - the officer had Middle Eastern relatives and felt unsafe on that duty.

The officer, who has been named as Pc Alexander Omar Basha, is attached ... Read more

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Botswana: How Can We Be Surpis

We had it coming. The meagre wages received by the Police make them discontent and prone to corruption. Listening to a radio call-in programme yesterday, caller after caller berated the police for corruption. The callers accuse the Police of being involved in a cattle theft scam.

We don't condone any form of corruption but we can write until our finger tips ache and talk until our voices become hoarse but as long as the cops are paid low wages, the issue of their corruption will only get worse rather than better.

Walk into any Police station and watch criminal file after file piled in the offices in an era of information technology and computers. Many a times, with Pula changing hands many a criminal file has disappeared from the face of the earth.

Apart from being expected to be community service providers, they are everybody's enemy, called all sorts of names.

When money and possessions go missing at accident scenes they are the ones blamed. We conveniently forget that the police are called by bystanders, to attend to accidents. Those first at the scene have ample time to search the victims and the like.

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