I READ the Ryhen King letter in your newspaper captioned “All Police Officers are not “Bad Johns,” and wish to make the following comment.
Ryhen King gave an example which said: “I was driving along the highway, and please do not ask me where, etc., and was ‘pulled over’ by a very good officer. His badge read ‘Williams.’ He courteously and immediately accosted me and even before he told me of my minor infraction, I ‘confessed’ my folly.
“I was doing just that few extra Km/h over the speed limit.  I did so in a most matter-of-fact manner too, as I am really not one for fast driving.”
Your point is well taken and I for one must congratulate Police Officer Williams for being courteous to you and hope he does so to all others.
I take it that  Ryhen King is Afro Guyanese and Police Officer Williams is also Afro Guyanese.
On around October 2011 I visited Guyana and spent a most glorious three weeks with family and friends. On my way to the airport my driver who is Indian was stopped by an Afro Guyanese police officer on the E.B. high way.
Two speeding Linden Mini Buses overtook my driver and zoomed by with tremendous speed.
After driving for about another five to six minutes a police officer stopped my driver. With radar gun in hand the police officer told my driver he was doing 60 in a 50 zone. The police officer had a little booth set up there and asked my driver to go with him.
About 10 minutes later my driver came back to his car and we drove to the airport. I asked my driver what had happened in there at the little police outpost. My driver told me the police officer asked him for fifteen hundred dollars which he paid in cash. I asked my driver how this police officer never caught and stopped those two speedsters that overtook us.
My driver told me this is how it goes in Guyana where some people are made to pay for everything.