Yesterday I was watching special assignment on SABC TV. They were talking about our South African police men. I knew before yesterday that their job was a difficult job but didn't realise the extent of stress and pressure they work under. And their working conditions are not helping much to assist the situation either.
When i was watching the show immediately in my mind I had a picture of one of my cousins who has been recently taken in to train to be a policemen and the excitment he has about this job. Then reality stricked, immediately I knew that my cousin was slowly but surely also going to make south african statistics about being stressed, hope not though maybe the government might decide to improve working conditions.
The things they get to see everyday are really horrific. dead people in a car accident, people with injuries, seroius injuries, people burnt in a taxi, person shot, stabbed............the list is endless and evrytime these things happen police are the first people that we call.
I mean I know from a personal experience when I see an accident scene I look away cause I don't want to have all the bad memories later on, Aren't they human as well? don't they have the same feeling..........does anyone think what will that person be like after 3 months seeing all this?
They are our fathers, brothers, sisters and mothers. They get killed everyday by the same community they are trying to protect. Why does it have to be like this?
I mean why?
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