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Dear Police Commissioner,

24 décembre 2020, 15:00

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Dear Police Commissioner,

I am writing to you because I believe in you and in your ability to do good. I know that you have a strong sense of ethics, you are hard-working and frugal with our money. The fact that you did not rush to buy a brand new guzzler with our money but chose instead to use a 2012 car is an indication of what your priorities are. I am also fully aware of the improvements you have brought to our police stations across the country. I wouldn’t waste my time writing to other heads of crucial institutions who have no backbone, no humanity and are only there to squeeze the maximum benefit from their positions.

Your nomination, unlike many others, was not based on your proximity with the ruling members of this government but rather on your track record. In fact, it surprised everyone in a rather pleasant way and is indeed to the government’s credit. You will recall our jubilant headlines when you were appointed and the expressed hopes we placed in you. Unfortunately, once you took office, our hopes were dashed one after the other, sadly making way for disappointment and disillusionment. I know it is not easy to do the right thing at the level of the police. It is never easy to do the right thing anywhere. I am the first to concede that. So there is no doubt in my mind that when you took over as police commissioner, you meant to carry on building on the reputation you had at the Special Mobile Force. But then you found out that the system is too rotten to allow you that luxury. I feel for you and share in your disappointment. I really felt a tinge of pain when I saw you at that ‘press conference’ reading with your eyes glued to the paper notes that must have been prepared for you. Your embarrassment was sadly apparent. Then you tiptoed out of the conference room before anyone confronted you with the questions the answers of which you owe to the nation. You should be the one chasing thieves, perjurers, fraudsters and criminals of all ilk and holding everyone accountable before the law, not running away from accountability.

This letter is not intended to chastise or blame you. As I said, it must be very difficult for you to deal with the rot in a police force that seems to operate as a state within a state. I truly sympathise. My aim is to share with you my worry about the situation in this country. We have hit rock bottom. We are no longer talking about nepotism, fraud and corruption – serious scourges in themselves. We have plummeted into an abys! I now hear respectable lawyers openly talking about a Mafia loose in the country. It is difficult not to believe them when you see the ‘suicide pandemic’ that has hit the country, particularly constituency no 8. So many people suddenly committing suicide, some after they have put themselves to sleep through a very powerful sedative, others after cutting off their arms and legs and some by hanging themselves from their wardrobe. Surely, there must be a better explanation to offer an intelligent nation that has had free education for 50 years! Accusing lawyers of creating a psychosis is not one worthy of our intelligence or yours.

Soopramanien Kistnen is a case in point. Thanks to the hard work of humane lawyers, a brave magistrate, a fearless representative of the DPP and l’express, which released the original stories, it is more or less established now that the poor guy was cold-bloodedly assassinated after having been drugged. He was probably not an angel but no one deserves to die in such a way and no one – no matter how powerful they may be – is allowed to get away with murder – literally – in a country where law and order prevail. Above all, no officer should aid and abet crime. Yet, that is what a few of your officers have been trying to do. All this has sadly been happening under your watch. You and only you have the opportunity to reverse that.

I understand how lonely it must feel when you want to do the right thing. Integrity is becoming such a rare commodity. In spite of that – or should I say because of that – it behoves upon you to put an end to the travesty of justice, reassure the nation and allow us to go back to the serenity we were living in before the Mafia took hold of the country and started operating with impunity.

There is something you already know: your post is a constitutional one. We have heard this repeated so many times that it has become meaningless but it really is not. What that means is that though you owe your appointment to the prime minister, he has no right to arbitrarily remove you at his whim and fancy. Remember what it took to remove one of your predecessors even after proof of corruption was established. So there is nothing that prevents you from truly supporting those men and women who are doing everything they can to see to it that justice is done. Admittedly, some of your officers have already sold their soul to the devil. You don’t need them in your struggle. There are many police officers in your team who genuinely want to serve the country, fight crime and be the heroes of this nation.

Show them the way, Sir. See to it that the high profile crimes that have shocked the nation are elucidated at the earliest. Let the assassins face court, no matter who they are. Open inquiries into all the recent scandals and treat all the citizens of this country equally, irrespective of how close they are to Lakwizine. Heck, put an end to Lakwizine itself!

You were still at the SMF when a man did the right thing to save democracy. He resigned, refusing to sign into law a bill that would put the DPP under the authority of a political nominee, a law that would have put an end to the independence of this very important office. That man is Xavier Duval. He gave up all the power and privileges he enjoyed as deputy prime minister and walked to the opposition benches where he is still sitting. His son left his post as deputy speaker and did the same and so did a number of men and women who refused to be bought. They may have lost power, but they entered History. Today, more men and women are making History by bravely bringing criminals to account.

The door of History is wide open for you today, Sir. Walk through it and write yourself into our history books. Remember: no one can touch you. Not this government, not the next one. No one else can save this country from the rogue, Mafia state we are turning into. Our fate lies in your hands. Be on the right side of History! It is the greatest Christmas gift you can give your children and the children of this nation!