{"id":20707,"date":"2011-03-14T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=20707"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T04:00:17","slug":"police-officer-in-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=20707","title":{"rendered":"Police officer in mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is believed that the advent of what is seemingly the Complaint, Discipline, Internal Investigation Department (CDIID) was meant to halt woeful actions and conducts of police officers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The truth manifests itself this past Friday when police sergeant 4732 Kargbo, who is attached to Shell Police Post Kissy, in broad day light, took off his police shirt, calling for a fight with a man supposed to be a complainant in a matter under investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our reporter was at the scene and here is what she says: \u201cThursday 10<sup>th<\/sup> March was an important day for the traders. In light of this, I was left with no option, but dashed to Kissy Shell community to basically observe how the mood of traders looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe urge to get news from the police overcame my thoughts and I was quick to reach Kissy Shell Police Post. At the post, Abdul Turay, a complainant in matter under investigation was observed in the exchange of words with Sgt Kargbo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo my surprise\u201d our reporter said, \u201cthe police sergeant shamelessly took off his uniform shirt and was calling for a fight, while at the same time lavishing invectives publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our reporter went further to say that sergeant Kargbo bragged not having any shilly-shallying for the CDIID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf u lek take mi to CDIID, den nor get natin for do to mi,\u201d Sergeant Kargbo said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Citations, as mentioned above, explained how some police officers conduct themselves in public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone Police, it is believed, operate to independently serve Sierra Leoneans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police should be virtually seen as acting as a \u2018black sheep\u2019 in the family and not \u2018anti\u2019 to society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enquiries as to the sergeant\u2019s previous character reveal that on number of occasions he has been overindulging into the delay of investigation on complaint made by the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though unconfirmed, it is a fact that sergeant Kargbo publicly misbehaved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Without prejudice and discrimination, residents of Ferry Junction have asked that the CDIID institute investigation on the conduct of the police sergeant.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary I Kamara <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed that the advent of what is seemingly the Complaint, Discipline, Internal Investigation Department (CDIID) was meant to halt woeful actions and conducts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[5492,707],"class_list":["post-20707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-sierra-leone-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}