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Thursday, July 26, 2012

DISBAND the Police & MACC, set up NEW multiracial forces: STOPPING THE CRIME WAVE


DISBAND the Police & MACC, set up NEW multiracial forces: STOPPING THE CRIME WAVE
It’s no longer a secret that there has been increasing criminalization of society and that the crime rate has gone through the roof particularly since the repeal of the various Emergency Ordinances. (EOs). However, it would be a strategic mistake to attribute the crime wave to the recent repeal of the EOs.
Petty criminals are not the only visible face of crime in Malaysia. Most of the biggest criminals in Malaysia wear suits, are chauffeur-driven around in luxury limousines and are in cahoots with criminals in uniform.
Five EOs were declared over the years to deal with these four “emergency situations”.
EOs were declared to deal with the threat of militant communism, to throw out the Stephen Kalong Ningkan Government in Sarawak, to throw out the Kelantan Government, and in the wake of the searing Sino-Malay race riots of May 13 in 1969 which erupted after the Opposition made dramatic gains in the General Election three days earlier.
EOs empowered even the lowliest cop to be King in the law of the Jungle
Malaysia is not unique in employing EOs as most of the Arab and Muslim World in particular is ruled by EOs.
Mubarak ruled for over 30 years in Egypt under emergency decrees and only repealed them after an uprising in the streets of Cairo called his bluff to drive him from power. Emergency decrees helped Mubarak win every presidential election with over 90 per cent of the votes cast. The Opposition was bludgeoned to death leaving only the tiny Muslim Brotherhood in place.
It’s a familiar story repeated in Malaysia.
The EOs gave Police enormous powers – even a lowly police inspector was King in resorting to the law of the jungle – to act against not only “criminals”, but those even thinking of committing a crime and politicians, among others.
The result was that the Police became trigger-happy, shooting first and asking questions later i.e. if the shooting victim was still alive. In most cases, the victims died while the police would invariably escape without so much as even a scratch. The fact is that the cowardly police, acting on so-called public tip-offs, would lie in ambush and murder their victims even before they had time to take out their weapons or machetes.
The police would turn in their standard performance at the perennial press conference to glory in details of their “close encounter” with the criminals now lying at the morgue. They would display money, weapons of all sorts, drugs and the like. God alone knows whether the evidence indeed came from the dead “suspects” or were planted by the police. No inquests were ever held and the Police didn’t believe in Internal Affairs querying those involved in shoot-outs.
Being trigger-happy was a short-cut method employed by the police, as with the police in Latin America who are noted for indulging in extra-judicial killings, to avoid having to go to Court and having to prove their case and at the same time “reduce the crime rate” by “wiping out criminals, suspects, and potential criminals”.
Trigger-happy cops saw no need to upgrade themselves
Suhakam, the Malaysian Human Rights Commission, only needs to go through the files on extra-judicial killings to realise the enormity of the police crimes against a defenceless civilian population. The perpetrators need to be brought to justice and made accountable for their crimes against human rights and human rights violations.
Being trigger-happy not only saved the Police from having to trudge between the Court and their cubicles at their bases, but they were blissfully content to wallow in ignorance and incompetence like “katak di bawah tempurung” (frogs under a coconut shell), seeing no need to acquire any crime-fighting skills of any sort or update themselves in general.
The Police have degenerated since the emergency years of 1948 to 1960 into an ill-equipped, ill-trained, zero-skills force of illiterates and semi-literates driven by queer notions on race and religion.
The EOs spared them the need to upgrade themselves all the time and as a result, stripped of the fig leaves provided by the repealed Ordinances, the Police stand naked now for all to see . . . unskilled, incompetent, unable to form their role of keeping the peace but not at any cost. So, it’s not surprising that the Police are blaming the repeal of the EOs for the crime wave going through the roof.
Underworld has links with the Police Force
Strangely, EOs were not used against the white collar criminals, the insider traders, the corrupt and those in the underworld who had links with elements in the Police force. There evidence is there in the foot-dragging by the Police on the underworld.
When the Police were not too busy murdering criminals in ambushes, they were equally busy in the lock-ups, beating the sh.t out of suspects to extract the so-called confession. Often, the Police did not know when and where to stop and many of their victims as a result ended up dead. That did not stop the Police from inventing stories on cases of alleged brutality and deaths in custody. They had any number of excuses to entertain the media or the Court when it came to that.
Indian youths have been a favourite target of the Police who belabour under the delusion that only this particular community is prone to crime.
The most infamous non-Indian example was then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim who was bashed up black and blue including being given a black eye by then Inspector General of Police Rahim Noor who went overboard to please then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Mahathir, embarrassed by Rahim Noor’s sycophancy, sheepishly claimed that Anwar probably either fell down in the police lock-up where he was being held or bashed himself up to garner public sympathy.
MACC no better
All the while, the Police like the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) seemed to be turning a blind eye to the bigger criminals who routinely raid the Public Treasury under the guise of bringing development to the people and line their pockets in the process.
Again, the Police are not entirely to blame for failing to deal entirely with the bigger crime wave in the country fostered by politicians and white collar criminals in suits.
The MACC, it must be stressed again, has been equally loathe to act against these big-time crooks despite having access to the global SWIFT and IBAN systems which can track money laundering activities.
Taib continues to live a charmed life in paradise
For example, MACC is yet to act against Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud despite the mountain of evidence available against him from SWIFT and IBAN. They don’t have to wait for exposes splashed by The Sarawak Report in London or the Bruno Manser Foundation in Switzerland.
Instead, the MACC has been busy with cases involving persons who time and again took a flying leap from their premises after interrogation sessions over petty amounts or petty corruption cases.
The bottomline is that both the Police and the MACC are beyond redemption due to the current political system where the top cops and MACC officers answer to the Umno-BN chiefs.
Taking a leaf from post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, both forces needs to be disbanded and a new multiracial force set up with UN help. This force, trained by the UN and international experts, can help fight commercial crimes as well and corruption.
Only a newly set-up Police force, well-trained and well-equipped, can help bring down the crime wave in the country and stamp out increasing criminalization of society.
In the interim period, the UN can provide a 50,000-strong International Police Force to keep the peace in Malaysia. There are precedents for this as in Timor Leste, Cambodia and elsewhere.
Those demobilized from the Police and the MACC should be barred from re-applying to join the new force.
Malaysia Chronicle

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