By Raffique Shah
March 08, 2026

Since everybody who is anybody who has worn a uniform—matters not what arm of the protective services he or she attempted to serve in—has offered advice to every new administration, I felt it incumbent on me to throw in my ten cents’ worth of advice to the beleaguered anti-crime Government that seems to be spinning top in mud, going nowhere, faster or slower.

I can boast that my qualifications for ­offering advice on matters of security date back to when the top cop of the day wore short pants, carried club-like batons, and looked every inch the fearsome badjohn. He had sobriquets, such as the infamous Bag-ah-Lion.
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