The Free Press quotes a serving officer in the police as saying that the problem the service faced in the effective dispensation of its duties was due to the fact that the Castle in the past had too many friends hence the countless number of orders that was given them in the name of the high office of the Executive.
The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the paper that so many suspected criminals had their way off the police grips because telephone calls and high-powered visits from some top-ranking police officers caused their release after committing all sorts of crime against the state. "Everyday, we arrest people for all sorts of criminal acts against the state and its internal security but some of them, we are ordered, b our superiors to release because the Castle say so," the officer said.
He cited as an example the case of one Karim, an engineer of the Piccadily Biscuit Factory who persistently assaulted his wife and house-helps but subsequent arrests by the police were blocked by orders from the Castle.
The officer noted that the saddest thing about such orders is that they are unchallenged even by the highest superiors of the Police Service "because no one wants to go hungry" suggesting that even the senior police officers were hesitant in carrying out the orders, yet they had to. "My brother, now I can talk, sometimes you will be at home late at night, then one of your Commissioner's would ask you to go and release the man in your custody," he said.
