The Untouchables

Dear Mr Cele 

I was inspired by a video in which you seemed to confiscate liquor, brazenly transported in a private car. Some misguided people scoffed. Those of us who have caught your vision as surely as Mark Boucher ever gloved a cricket ball, cheered. Who knows what vile crimes might have been inspired by that liquor, as it flowed into gullets and guts? Inflaming perhaps unnatural, gross desires to loot, murder and pillage. This may well be your finest hour. Cometh the virus, cometh the man. Like Horatio at the bridge, I am sure you will be remembered as the man who held the intersection, come what may.

I am delighted that the action was captured on video. Great addition to training films for Policing 101. 

I suggest that you remain as our man on the spot, admonishing, confiscating, filming. I feel the confidence growing that we will soon walk the streets at midnight without fear of being molested. On the other hand, I'm confident that rapists, murderers and armed robbers shook in their shoes on viewing the video. I suggest some editing, then a well-publicized release as the Saturday night movie. A few close-ups of your stern lawman's visage, some Peckinpah style slow motion in the key sequences - a Mzansi classic is born. Perhaps we could spin it out into a Mzansi version of The Untouchables. 

In the interim, you could delegate the other stuff. You must have people more suited to the boring business of strategy, tactics, relationships and communication. Trivial stuff. Surely, they could handle gang violence, drug trafficking and the assortment of villainy that we've almost become accustomed to. You can get on with the critical stuff. Who knows but even now some black-hearted villain roams our streets, bottles of Scottish Leader and cartons of Sahawi in his trunk, like deadly weapons-grade plutonium. Go get them, sir. Your country relies on you.

Yours in the savage struggle against alcohol and crime (almost the same thing).

Richard 

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