Ugh, what a story. It looks like I have been only to nice countries with kind people as police officers - and I hope it remains this way.
But I can tell you an amazing story. Once I visited Holland exactly when all state employees were on strike. Truly, all were on strike. But the way this strike looked like was truly hilarious. Every state official was on his/her post, they just didn't work. We - the visitors- were sitting on the carriers of our host's bicycles. Embraced by the late autumn night, hoping to give us the cloak of invisibility, and hiding us from the police as human package on a bike was not exactly allowed, let alone riding without light, we were stopped by two police officers. Instead of giving us a ticket to pay a fine, he calmly and politely stated, "You should not sit on the carrier, so we should fine you, but as we are on strike we will let you go. But tomorrow the strike will be over, and you might get a fine, if you ride this way."
So, maybe your police officers there are on constant strike or they are just another political party, some sort of shadow government in opposition to the government policy, some sort of deep state pursuing their own political decisions regardless to the newly adopted laws and policies.
ENLIGHTENED!!!
Ahaha! That's an awesome story! You guys were lucky the police officers were on strike!! They even gave you a good tip for the future, too! That's some kind of police force haha!
It's a good thought to have, talking about your suggestion of the traffic police here constantly on strike or working for a shadow government. Unfortunately, as per Occam's Razor, I would have to say that they're just lazy and corrupt haha!
Thanks for stopping by to share that wonderful tale! Oh and thank you for all the resteems as well, I appreciate it very much :D