Be an example!
published: Thursday | July 22, 2004

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I AM disgusted at the way the attorneys-at-law handled the issue of being searched upon entering the Horizon Correctional Facility to visit their clients on Monday, July 19, 2004. In the same way that the laws of this country were constituted for all citizens, then it is the same scenario with the rules of the institution. They apply to all visitors to the facility including attorneys.

Are the attorneys bigger than being searched? After all, they are not angels, and the operators of the institution stated that they cannot take any risk at the high-security facility. Given their professions, attorneys-at-law are the ones who should show ultimate respect for the rules and regulations wherever they are. How can they expect other visitors to conform to being searched if they are not?

I am in full support of the lawmen in standing up to these so called 'bigger heads' and refusing them entry without being searched. The rules of any organisation must be obeyed by all who use the institution. I think that the same disregard they have for the institutional rules will reflect itself in disregard for the laws of the country.

I am, etc.,

KENNOR DALEY

kdk1906800@hotmail.com

Williamsfield P.O.

Manchester.