Instructions have recently been circulated to police stations around Burma by the chief of police in Naypyidaw to arrest all police deserters, as nearly half of them have been involved in crimes, said a police official on the condition of anonymity.
Authority Issues Orders on Police Deserters
“We received the instruction signed by Brigadier Khin Yee, the chief of police, telling us to arrest all police deserters and send them to jail,” he said, adding that “it has come out after nearly half of police deserters have been involved in many crimes in some way.”
However, the police official did not mention the details of the kind or location of crimes these police deserters have allegedly been involved in.
“We are going to carry out the assignment from the beginning of April, but we are currently hunting for police deserters in our township,” he said.
According to the police department, ten percent of police have deserted their posts within the last decade due to insufficient salaries and subsequently poor living standards.
It was also learned that the plan to arrest police deserters was decided upon in the third round of meetings in the last quarter in Naypyidaw in 2008. #
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