Avondale police station has seen its second mass transfer of traffic officers and the underlying problems, and the solution found by the police, both raise several concerns. Avondale traffic operates along a swathe of the inner ring of northern suburbs, with its territory stretching as far east as the central section of Borrowdale Road and including the University of Zimbabwe, so a majority of the rich, well-educated and important residents of Harare pass through this territory each day.
Such people are not afraid to complain, and often they know very senior police officers socially. While details are sketchy it is obvious that police headquarters must, to take such wholesale action, have had a large number of complaints from people who are articulate and whose word cannot be doubted.
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