...exhorts the nation to work together to fight escalating crime
Advocate Matsoso promises to do his best to combat spiralling crime. But he also emphasizes the need for the nation to work together to curb the scourge. More importantly, the police service needs to be adequately resourced to implement its mandate. Without adequate resources, the police are harm-strung in executing proper investigations raising the spectre of them engaging in unorthodox methods to try and extract confessions, even though that is wrong.
Adv Matsoso is an old hand as far as policing is concerned, having dealt with crime at different levels. Thereafter, Adv Matsoso was appointed Inspector-General of Police, a position he held until his latest return to the LMPS, two decades later, but now at its helm. LT: In which fields have you worked on and how do you think the expertise and experience you accumulated, prepared you for the herculean task of running the LMPS?I have served in law enforcement throughout my career. I worked in the police service, I worked at Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences . I went to Lesotho Revenue Authority .
LT: As a person who has held the senior position of DG at the DCEO, how did you manage to stay free from political influence and how do you intend to maintain that in this new role?We must admit that we are living in a democratic country, you cannot just wish away the politics. They are there, and they will always be there. What you must maintain is professionalism.
I think I have met many of them in different colours. I don't regard them as bad people. For as long as you know what your duties are, you can never go wrong. We are the professionals here. We must guide them and teach them to seek to do the right thing. These people could have competed in useful endeavours instead of fighting and killing each other. They could have been building schools, sponsoring athletic games and so on..... That way you bring development in your community.
If any officer wants to be an outlaw, they are free to leave the police and go join them. That way we will face them, knowing that we don't have snitches anymore, but that we are dealing with the enemy. The enemy within us is more dangerous than the one outside. I know thesepeople entice them with money, but that is blood money, and that is wrong. We will not tolerate any of our members living on that money...
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