By Basil Fernando
For a week, the media reported that a boy who was last seen at a police station had ‘disappeared’. Everyone knows that this word is a euphemism for murder. Somehow, it is less disturbing to talk about a disappearance.
No police dogs have been sent to look for the boy or at least for his dead body. No one seems to want to know what has really happened. A police dog is likely to not only find where the boy is, but also find those who took the boy there.
Unlike police dogs, policemen are not likely to find out the most obvious facts. Even if the ‘investigation’ goes on for years, the report will come out stating that the boy is ‘missing’ or has ‘disappeared’.
If the Inspector General of Police really wants to find out what has happened, and quickly, he should put his police dogs to the task and not rely on his policemen.
