The government has no plans to set up an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC),Anwar is absolutely right When a structure fails you dont blame the draftsmen but the engineer When someone farts you dont abmonish the arsehole but the asshole who farts Therefore charging the lowly constables is just hogwash An escape for the one in charge Please get some people with brains who recognises their responsibilities to leadOf course, it isn’t enough. But making the small fry suffer so that the sharks can thrive is Umno’s culture. We all know that. And the police are owned by Umno.
A war of words have broken out between the outgoing Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan one the one hand and the Ministry of Home Affairs represented by the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the Home Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Seri Mahmood Adam on the other.
Since Hishammuddin’s announcement that there will not be another extension as IGP for him, Musa has been hitting out at “excessive interference from third parties” against the police force, zeroing in particular on the Home Ministry.
Yesterday, he told police officers and personnel not to be “yes men” or the entire force would “rot and collapse”.
It would appear that Musa was content to be a “yes man” to the political “powers-that-be” so long as he continues to be IGP, which was why the police under his leadership reached the bottom of its “rot and collapse” of public confidence and support in the history of the Malaysian police force, despite the blueprint formulated by the Dzaiddin Police Royal Commission in 2005 to restore plummeting public confidence by transforming itself into an efficient, incorruptible, professional world-class police service.
Musa was the foremost antagonist to the full acceptance and implementation of the recommendations of the Police Royal Commission of Inquiry– particularly the key proposal for the establishment of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) – at one stage even threatening police revolt against the elected government of the day.
Musa has now confessed that there was “excessive interference by “third parties”, naming the Home Ministry, outsiders and people with vested interest “who want to do things that are not right”, in the work of the police.
Musa failed in his duties as IGP when he did not lodge official reports to initiate investigations to halt such “excessive interference” with the police.
As Musa’s term as IGP will not expire until Sept. 13, it is not too late for him to be suspended as IGP with his honourable discharge subject to full investigations into his dereliction of duties as IGP as well as serious allegations of corruption and abuses of power which have been against him.
The ball is in the court of the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Hishammuddin.
said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz in Parliament today.
To a supplementary question from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh), he said the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission set up on April 1, last year was sufficient to investigate complaints of misconduct against enforcement personnel in the country.On March 25, 2008, then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced that the draft IPCMC Bill was ready to be presented to the Cabinet before being tabled in Parliament.But it was deferred as Parliament was dissolved that year to make way for the 12th general election.Anwar had asked whether the government would set up the IPCMC to enhance police integrity, especially in the face of allegations of misconduct by police personnel during the Bersih 3.0 rally.Replying to Anwar’s original question on alleged police brutality towards media personnel and the public during the Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28, Mohamed Nazri said from video recordings and following investigations, two policemen were charged in the Magistrate’s Court on May 28 under Section 352 of the Penal Code for using criminal force on a Guanming Daily photographer at the Bersih 3.0 rally.
Putrajaya says 967 tear gas canisters and grenades were fired during the April
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28 Bersih rally, which the Information Ministry said was only attended by 22,270 people. Simple maths would mean that there was one grenade or canister fired for every 23 people. That’s a bit excessive, isn’t it, especially when the Peaceful Assembly Act is already in force? Let’s not forget the complaints of police brutality or any other kind of violence for what was a largely peaceful assembly. Was there a need for such an extravagant use of tear gas to quell a crowd asking for clean and fair elections? I wonder who will end up crying once the general election is over if such extreme force continues to be used by Malaysians on fellow Malaysians.
constable was found guilty on two counts of causing hurt to car thief suspect A. Kugan, who died in police custody three years ago.
Shah Alam Sessions Court judge Aslam Zainuddin sentenced V. Navindran to three years’ jail on each count, to be served concurrently.
Navindran was allowed a stay of execution pending appeal. — File pic
“The defence failed to raise a reasonable doubt in this case,” Aslam was reported as saying by The Starnewspaper today.
Navindran was accused of two alternative counts of causing hurt to Kugan, 23, at the interrogation room of the Taipan police station in USJ, Subang Jaya, at 7am and 4pm on January 16, 2009.
He was initially acquitted of the charges but the High Court later overturned the acquittal and ordered him to enter his defence.
Aslam said he found the defence a bare denial and ruled out Navindran’s alibi.
The constable had claimed he was not in the interrogation room during the incident.
The judge allowed a stay of execution pending Navindran’s appeal but raised bail to RM20,000 in two sureties.
Over 1,500 custodial deaths took place in Malaysia between 2003 and 2007, as estimated by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Few are ever pinned on authorities under whose watch the fatalities took place.
The spotlight on custodial deaths grew more acute following Kugan’s death.
Kugan’s death was initially classified as sudden death and attributed to water in his lungs according to an initial post-mortem report.
However, the case was reclassified as murder following a public outcry.
Eleven rank and file policemen were transferred to desk duty at the Selangor police headquarters but only one person — Navindran — was charged over the incident.
The number of suspects killed by police in Los Angeles County has risen nearly 70 percent in 2011 over the previous year.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck says the majority of shootings are legitimate responses to serious threats. He says police have become more adept at responding quickly to violent situations. Fatal police shootings this year, however, have fallen back to 2010 levels.
The increase in police killings come at a time when murder rates have fallen to historic lows – 612 homicides were recorded countywide last year.
i: Disturbed by a growing number of political assassinations and murders in his country, an Indian Muslim scholar has called for applying Shari`ah law as an urgent solution to curb the growing violence, Emirates 24/7 agency reported.
“India should introduce strict Islamic Shari`ah punishment system to prevent killers and those who spread violence to go scot free due to political influence,” said Kanthapuram Abubaker, General Secretary of All India Muslim Scholars Association and founder and Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya (Sunni Cultural Centre).
“Those who kill someone should get capital punishment.”
Popularly known as Shaikh Aboobackar Ahmad, Abubaker is a leader of the AP Sunni Muslim community.
Seeing growing political assassinations, communal riots and other violent crimes in India, he saw shari`ah law as the solution to stop these crimes, citing its successful role in curbing such crimes in the Gulf countries.
“Gulf countries have successfully curbed such crimes and India should introduce capital punishment to curb violent crimes,” he said.
Kanthapuram was referring to a spate of political assassinations and communal violence incidents in India, especially Kerala.
A rebel communist leader TP Chandrashekharan was stabbed 51 times to death by an unidentified criminal gang, who were believed to be hired by a third party.
Even BBC News recently reported a spate of political assassinations in Kerala, based on a disclosure that one political party is accused of carrying out a number political assassinations based on a list prepared by the party leaders.
Kanthapuram said he just completed a campaign against alcoholism, violence and other vices.
In Islam, Shari`ah govern issues in Muslims’ lives from daily prayers to fasting and from to inheritance and marital cases to financial disputes.
The Islamic rulings, however, do not apply on non-Muslims, even if in a dispute with non-Muslims.
Punishment
The scholar suggested Shari`ah application for heinous crimes if the government wants to curb them in the country.
“Those who kill others in the name of politics or religion go scot free because they have protection from senior political leaders,” Abubaker said.
“Those who indulge in serious crimes such as political assassinations continuously commit such and get scot free believing that their political bosses will protect them.
“India should follow Gulf countries and introduce Shariah rule of awarding capital punishment to those who kill Indian citizens. This will reduce heinous crimes in society,” he said.
There are some 140 million Muslims in Hindu-majority India, the world’s third-largest Muslim population after those of Indonesia and Pakistan.
India has been victim to repeated communal violence.
In the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992, 900 people were killed in communal violence.
Ten years ago, Gujarat witnessed the worst communal rioting in post-independence India.
The riots, which saw at least 2,000 Muslims hacked or burned to death, erupted after 59 Hindu pilgrims died in a train fire first blamed on Muslims but which a later inquiry concluded was accidental.
Several investigations at the state and federal levels accused police of failing to protect Muslims under orders from Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and his aides, fanning one of the worst instances of sectarian violence in India.
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