PICKING THE POCKET OF A POLICEMAN

THE chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Parry Osayande told national legislators recently that some cops stole from corpses. This must have been the reason the man showed scant respect for a policeman at an accident scene in Abeokuta on Monday, October 17. He tried to pick a policeman's pocket and he was caught.THIS is the story told by the police, a force that does not draw falsehood from an inexhaustible fount, contrary to the claim of some people that it does. The man protested his innocence as he was being led away by two policemen. It is easy to see why. He is a tall, lean man with long arms. They are arms that make picking pockets as easy as ABC.THE man's argument must also have been that a policeman is not likely to notice when his pocket is being picked. It is not that a policeman is inattentive. Indeed, his eyes are more restless than those of a predatory bird. A policeman feathers his own nest so well that strange, probing fingers will not go deep enough to alert him to the violation of his pocket. The N2O notes in his pockets provide a noiseless cushion. Policemen have great trouble recognising crisp naira notes. They are used to the crumpled naira notes that everyone knows commercial bus drivers and motorcycle taxi operators happily shower them with.OR did the man believe that by picking the policeman's pocket, he was taking what did not rightly belong to the policeman and that his stealthy method was a lot more refined than the dark growls of the men in black
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