Dear Policeman

I think there are a few things that we should not be doing while driving. One of them is on your cell phone while driving. You should also put on your seat belt. Soon even the back passengers will be mandatory to put on seat belts. And of course, one should not be driving faster than the speed limit.

So, these are the three things that I think all of us should follow the rules by the relevant authority. Of course there are more....

It is just that I am a little peeved, cause a few times, with my own eyes, I saw our policeman breaking their own rules that they should uphold.

Talking on the cell phone without hands free while in the squad car! I have seen personally at least once. I was wondering why the squad car was driving slowly yet not so erratically swaying to left and right. By the time I passed the squad car, which I have to pass on the left side, as it was hogging the fast lane, I can see the driver holding his cell phone to his ear without hands free! Well must be his wife on the phone.....

How many times any of us has seen the occupants of our police squad car not using seat belts? I have seen so many times. One time I read in the newspaper, where a citizen complained about the police not using seat belts yet summoning the normal citizen that may have forgotten to put it on. I cannot remember which high ranking officer took the liberty to answer in the newspaper. His common sense in answering the question was that his officers do not use the seat belts because it was hindering them to take quick action if they should need to react fast on emergencies. Ermmm ?

Driving faster than the speed limit. Yes I agree in the line of duty, of course they should be driving as fast as they can. But I have seen squad cars driven more than the speed limits on the highways, without it's siren blaring or the lights on. Which to say, they were no emergency, yet they drove more than the speed limit.

So I wonder, why the double standard? So many answers came to my mind. But one stick on my mind. We human, when in authority, we fail to see our own mistakes, yet we can see every detail of the mistakes of others......

What you say?