*INJURED POLICE OFFICER

In the past four years no fewer than 1000 police officers have had to make the supreme sacrifice while responding to distress calls. The figure has actually frightened authorities and has caused them to reappraise their operational strategies.
Today, it is safe and sane to infer that hundreds of our officers have been maimed by armed robbers and other criminals while some have somewhat been either permanently confined to wheelchairs or bedridden.
To make the matter worse, authorities have continually shown no interest in the ill-fated officers. It is only their family members that are left alone to take care of the bruised and abandoned officers. Information gathered by our reporter has it that after what has been described as ‘First Aid Treatment,’ officers—victims are usually on their own.
Checks revealed that some police stations today are littered by obituary posters of officers who were either involved in automobile accidents or out rightly attacked, perhaps having been ambushed by hoodlums while protecting the lives and properties of others.
Indeed, those in the line of on-duty deaths are increasing by the day as records abound of several attacks on officers by the people they are paid to protect. Barely six weeks ago was Deputy Superintendent Emmanuel attached to Olosan Police Station in Area ‘D’ Divisional Headquarters, Lagos was attacked by street gangs in Mushin who shot him dead few yards away to their station. The officer, in company of others  were responding to a distress call when the fatal incident took place.
Information at our disposal has it that the age long hatred for the law enforcers by law breakers is actually responsible for incessant attacks on officers who, in most cases were carrying out their constitutional assignments.
Not too long ago were three promising officers attacked while carrying out a covert investigation that perhaps involved a multinational company. The  officers, led by one Joseph Awup, ended in hospital where they spent several months, having had a gruesome encounter with the merchants of death.
The question is: Do they actually deserved to be treated like that? The answer is no. Police officers should be seen as the guiding angels who protect us and our properties most of the time.

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