Wear name badges for identification

I WISH to report an encounter with a traffic police road block on Waigani Drive (outside the Works Department) at 3.30pm on Oct 7.
I trust the officer in charge of traffic police can read this story.
I travelled to Mt Hagen to do some work in the Mt Hagen hospital in the first week of October.
Not wanting to disturb the Port Moresby General Hospital (PMGH) transport to pick me at the airport, I rang my brother to come and pick me.
The flight came into Port Moresby at 2pm and I was due to start work in the labour ward of PMGH (emergency call) at 4pm.
My brother picked me and we were on the way to the PMGH at 3.30pm when we were stopped by the traffic police at a routine traffic road check.
Our car had up to date registration and safety sticker, but one of the constables pulled us over because there was a crack in the front windscreen.
We were told that the driver should pay K1,000 for this misdemeanour or the car would be impounded and we would have to find a taxi to take us to the PMGH.
I asked the police constable and his supervising senior ‘officer’ if my brother could receive a warning and he could be permitted to take me to the PMGH labour ward as I was due to commence duty at 4pm.
I also reminded the police that doctors spend a lot of time writing police reports to assist them with their work and that normal professional behaviour was collaboration and assistance rather than confrontation.
The answer was that my brother’s license was confiscated and he was told to come to the traffic police office opposite MVIL to pay a fine and retrieve his license.
Even at this point the supervising officer told me that his wife was pregnant and would be coming to the labour ward soon to deliver – I did not say anything but just scratched my head and turned away.
None of the policemen at this traffic block had name badges on.
When my brother turned up at the traffic police office to retrieve his license he was told that they could go to the counter and he would pay a fine of K1,000 or he could give K200 to the police man outside the traffic police office!
At the very least could policemen wear their name badges when they are working?
I had my name badge on as I was on my way to start duty at Port Moresby General Hospital.

Professor Glen Mola,
Head of Obstetrics and Gynaeology at SMHS-UPNG and PMGH Specialist doctor