Cambodian Traffic Polices’ life

What do you think about Cambodian traffic polices’ life? Or would they happy to do this work?

Alright, if you are Cambodian people you may know more than foreigners or foreigners may know more than you, sometimes-- Moreover, traffic in Cambodia is very noisy, especially in Phnom Penh city or target tourism provinces.  Being a passenger passing on some roads traffic lights, some roads do not have traffic lights, you may see some polices are doing their hard job.

When pass the traffic light or somewhere else, have you ever noticed what are they doing? Or have you imagined the traffic polices'life look like? However, would they be valued, respected or satisfied by their citizens or passengers who are driving? I am not going to answer all these questions. If you see this article I want you express your point of view even you are Cambodian or not.     

When people drive to somewhere even their workplaces, schools, or wherever, I believe they see polices are working hard to avoid traffic jam (mostly during the national festivals/holidays in the morning, around 7:00am to 8:00am and evening at 5:00pm to 9:00 pm). You will hear the whistle from the middle of the road, they seem like pedestrians-this is what polices are doing, it is risky yet they have to do it. They, polices, try to manage the traffic to avoid any bad traffic jam and to help it citizens to travel safety. But the thing is even they are trying to so, some passengers do not respect them, people try to go beyond without listening to polices.

Even some people do not respect them, yet they (polices) still keep doing their work while sweat is coming out and risky work.  You know why most of polices in Cambodia are doing this while other countries polices do not need to whistle much in the middle of the roads.  Because some people in Cambodia do not respect the traffic light or sign and that’s why polices try doing this when the roads are being noised. Still some people do not listen them at all, people just want to go, and they (passengers) do not care the other people who also travel on that road. They go fast and sometimes they cause accident happen, especially with some of the high rang people who pass on this, they (traffic polices) can be threatened by this high rang people due to the power can make them afraid. I notice some traffic polices   stand on a piece of pedestal to control traffic.  What the work is! How pity they are!

Look at another side to their condition of their living, they (polices) get little salary if compare to other works, and they work under the sun or in the rain. How can they live with less than two hundred US dollar per month? What if they have family with four members or more than this?  How can they pay for their breakfast, lunch and dinner and for their children? Some of them may work extra time, not only do they work as traffic police, but they also work as Moto tub driver or other works  to earn more money to support their family.

Okay, this is just my piece of view. What about you, people? What do you think about traffic polices?