Sierra Leone Police (SLP) personnel have intimated this medium that they feel the absence of All People Congress (APC) as a pro-security welfare administration that looked after their welfare throughout.
Junior SLP personnel FORUM Newspaper SL randomly engaged at police installations across the country, raised serious concerns about the non-supply of their uniforms, raingears including boots for the wet season and ahead of recently concluded election.
They claimed that had it been the last APC-led administration they would have been supplied with their needs to enable them work effectively rain or shine.
Consideration government’s regime policing uses of personnel in the last five years much was expected from the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party administration to meet the demands of the Police in the areas of addressing welfare matters, they fumed. Police personnel after the other say the Julius Maada Bio led SLPP government has made use of the SLP in the last five years than any other government, yet personnel expectations are not chanced.
They said unlike, the APC Government of former president, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, raingears were always supplied to SLP before the rains to enable them to perform their functions well.
Additionally, they disclosed that ahead of any elections, the former under late former President Kabbah and former president Koroma always ensured that uniforms were always procured for both the Republic of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) and the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). They observed that their current welfare conditions is the exact opposite of what they claimed to have noticed in the first term of the President Julius Maada Bio-led government.
Police headquarter sources are that police officers have expressed their dissatisfaction with regards the unavailability of raingears following the numerous operational deployments being carried out by the personnel since the commencement of political and electioneering campaigns, cool-off period, polling day, the days before and after the announcement of election results.
Many officers showered blame their plight on the Executive Management Board of the Sierra Leone Police (EMB-SLP) for failing to procure the needful policing equipment and operational gears for personnel, especially when they had long aware that the just concluded election will be conducted in June.
