I feel compelled to share our experience when our vehicle shut down on Marcus Garvey Drive recently and to publicly thank corporals O. Campbell and G. Guscott and constables O. Lewis and S. Powell of the Motorised Patrol Unit for their assistance. These officers are a true credit to the police force.

They rerouted the traffic and physically pushed the vehicle off the road, gave advice and assured us they would patrol the area until our vehicle was repaired. They acted with professionalism and genuine concern. I believe that these are rare qualities in people in general nowadays, and is an aspect of policing that should be valued more greatly.

We left the area feeling uplifted by our contact with the police.

- Bridgeth Gordon (Mrs) Principal, Church Teachers' College, Mandeville

The picture of Daryl Vaz's gaping yawn that appeared on the front page of yesterday's (February 13) Gleaner is most telling. While for some time there have been repeated calls for greater decorum, both in speech and conduct in the House of Representatives by our elected officials, it seems to me that that picture of Mr Vaz reveals that some of these persons have not yet awakened to the fact that more is expected of them.

When the House is sitting there are cameras and reporters present, as our former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller can well attest, so they must be conscious (when they are awake, that is, as Maxine Henry-Wilson now realises) that they are being watched.