With the machinery having gone to great lengths to alert people about bogus cops by prominently displaying banners stating that citizens should insist on policemen furnishing their identity cards (ID), it is essential that the cops possess one so the public can practice what they preach.

Nearly 5,000 policemen stationed across the city haven’t been provided with ID cards since three years, leaving tem with only their uniforms to prove their identity, they claim. u00a0To make matters worse, whenever the policemen without ID cards approached higher authorities, they were told that the contract with the issuing firm had lapsed.u00a0