00:00Any time you want to go the road or the route of saying public servants or servants of the
00:08state ought to pay out of their pocket for mistakes or missteps, that is a dangerous,
00:15slippery slope.
00:16ASP Dixon believes there is a clear disparity as it relates to certain conversations surrounding
00:21the police.
00:22If the view is to be taken seriously, he asks, why stop at the police?
00:28We have ministers making pronouncement matters going as far as the Privy Council.
00:36In their time, space, and collaboration with legal policies, they felt it fit to go the
00:43way they went, and we see matters have gone there, and it's saying that our ministers
00:48were at fault.
00:50We have seen where judges have given pronouncement, both at High Court and Appeal Matters, and
00:54the matters have gone before the Privy Council, and overturned.
00:59Is it that we want our judges to pay out of their pocket for interpreting the law and
01:04it was not consistent with what the law lords at the Privy Council would have stated?
01:08The association head isn't discounting the fact that officers have erred and should be
01:13held accountable for their actions.
01:15ASP Dixon does not believe that the public is being too harsh on the TTPS.
01:20Instead, he asks for balance.
01:24For this, he called on the media to also highlight the positive aspects of the service, while
01:29calling on his own organisation to step up its game.
01:33The media has their significant role to play in terms of selling the good, but I think
01:38that we also as a police organisation could do a little more for our corporate, our corporate
01:45communication, give more information to the media, and task them to sell the good things
01:52we are doing.
01:53So in terms of the public having an expectation and being harsh or hard on us, I think that
02:00it is a balancing act.
02:02Aksha Galston, TV6 News.
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