I refer to the letter Police priorities frustratingly comical .

I think our police especially in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, have been doing an exemplary job since the general elections passed and Bangsar passed out of BN hands.

On June 25, at the height of lunch time, I was at the Maybank office at Jalan Telawi, parking where everyone normally parks when they want to stop by the ATM to get some cash or in my case, to withdraw money to pay for my taxes (I am a good citizen).

No sooner had I turned my back to my car, just five feet away, to withdraw and turn around, to my amazement I had already received a parking summons.

Never in my years here has this ever happened, and with such haste. I checked my ticket. The police was there just two minutes ago. Had I not fumbled with my wallet, I could have spared myself a hearty RM100 donation to the national budget.

But what amazed me more was not my dumb luck but the speed at which it happened. I scanned the area to see that every single car within 100 metres was booked and not a single cop was in in sight.

As I swung around the corner to the post office where I was intending to do my civic duty and pay my taxes with the cash for the which I had paid such a high price for withdrawing, I was further amazed to see an entire army of policemen or whatever department they were from, descending upon the street like a plague of locusts, with their little fancy new summons machines.

While I applaud such efficiency, I am not alone in wondering if this show of force is not some kind of payback to having snubbed the BN candidate on March 8.

After all, as far as I know, Bangsar residents still lock all their gates and doors three times over because of snatch thieves, break-ins and armed robberies that have been rife in our constituency over the past years (yes, Puan Shahrizat, are you surprised?).

No one feels safer now than they did before the elections. I still don't see any police patrolling our area (except along the top of the hill where all the rich datuk stay. There, you can't park your car in front of any of the mansions tfor more than five minutes before a patrol car comes to honk you along).

I just wonder, when is our government going to start doing their job to protect and serve the people instead of harassing us?