Before
joining Police Service, I had never imagined that there exists a government
department which works so much. My
parents and everyone else always told me that government jobs are better
because of less work or no work, no
responsibility and accountability so less stress, plenty of leaves, 100% job
security and so on. I too had similar notion before becoming a Police officer.
I
could never appreciate good things of my job in private sector while I was
there. Today I feel that it had everything which a job should have :- 5 days
week, very good salary, flexible working hours, , centrally air conditioned
office, fully computerized work process, all sorts of leaves and so on. I
hardly remember days when I worked on weekends or on holidays.
So
now when I compare all this with my present job, It sometimes makes me feel that why I am doing a much harder job and
that too with much lesser salary. Here there is no concept of working hours as
it is always 24x7. No one cares if sometimes you are working continuously for
24 hours or more but everyone will question you if you are late in reaching to
a crime scene even by few minutes. Here we are still struggling for issues such
as RO systems for drinking water, comfortable offices, vehicles, computers etc.
Here anytime you might be suspended for
something, you might even don’t know anything about that.
But
then I have chosen this job and I like
it. This job has something different as It gives me a chance and authority to set many
things right if I feel that they are
wrong. My sincere efforts solve problems of the people and provide them relief.
It gives me a chance to bring smile on the faces of the people. People coming
back to us just to say ‘thanks’ when we help them is a kind of motivation and
reward which is unparalleled. It is much higher a motivation than comfort of
luxury offices or better salary.
And yes, not all but there are people who
recognize our efforts. This job has given me moments when people have come to
me and told that they will remember me for their whole life for what I have
done for them. And thats more than enough for me.
And
these are few moments which keeps me going……
