{A Trip to the Colonies [continued]}[19th August 1974]

[Redbook2:46-47][19740819:0000h]{A Trip to the Colonies [continued]}[19^th August 1974]

Monday 19740819

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            At Nyandzi’s Police Station I met […] V – a likeable bloke, and an able Section Officer, likely to go a long way [….]. 

My only slight doubt […] is about his police work.  He is clearly a good policeman, and a policeman’s job must involve classification.  But once or twice, especially at Hot Springs, he expressed dislike of particular kinds of people who passed – something distantly approaching the ‘hippy’ type – which made me uneasy.  When an able and ambitious young policeman starts to classify and condemn, one begins to wonder how far he will take on himself the function of judge as well as those of policeman and (in this case) public prosecutor and ‘executioner’ (not literally, but as imprisoner).

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