I Hasn't Bin Drinkin, Hofficer...

We all like it when our friends do well, but when is it not a good idea to celebrate a colleague's promotion? Maybe when he's a police officer, and you're the on-duty Station House Officer. In this morning's newspaper I read the story of Rajesh Kumar Nathani. Now Mr Nathani has risen to a position of authority in the police in North West Delhi. Good for him, and good that he is happy to welcome others into a similar level of authority. Not so good that he was on duty at the time, and was found drunk during a vigilance raid on his police station on Sunday night. When I say found drunk, the vigilance raiders didn't catch him and his fellow officers drinking. The booze had run out by then. But when asked to explain the reek of alcohol emanating from his body, Station House Officer Nathani was unable to. He also refused a medical examination to determine if he had been imbibing. He jumped in his car to drive away, and drove straight into the police station wall. Reader, I will leave it to you to draw your own conclusions...