Talking Point:

Traffic Police - Sri Lankan style

BAMBALAPITIYA: This incident is too funny for me not to share it with others. At Bambalapitiya on the Galle Road near Dickman’s Road junction invariably there are two traffic policemen watching like hawks to apprehend any motorist daring to jump a red traffic light.

On July 18 they were there as usual and I noticed one of them, the slightly pot bellied one, jumping to the centre of the road with his hand up to stop a motorist who blatantly passed a red light, suddenly to realise that the motorist is a senior policeman driving his own car.

What does the poor traffic cop do?He smartly changed the lifted arm in a salute, right in the centre of Galle Road with other vehicles swishing pass him on both sides.

Whilst I was quite amused at the absurd sight, I thought to myself, like in the West where even Prime Ministers are copped for traffic violations, if ever a time comes when one of our cops will have the guts to cop a senior policeman, then pigs will fly.

Udaya de Silva,
Bambalapitiya.