Musa: Good, honest men victimised

Ex-IGP speaks out against transfers, saying that crime syndicates are now operating freely with 'blessings from the top'.

PETALING JAYA: Good, honest, hardworking police officers are being transferred from their divisions for doing their work with integrity, claimed former Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan.

Musa suggested that these moves are now allowing more and more criminal syndicates to operate freely with “blessings from somebody on top” and also involved politicians at the highest levels.

Musa gave several examples of such transfers, and spoke out against the nationwide enbloc transfer of D7 officers in early 2011.

“After I left, there was an enbloc transfer of D7 officers, right? Not everybody is bad in the D7, why must you change the whole team?” he asked.

On rumours that the transfers were part of a exercise to facilitate syndicates changing hands, Musa said that was not the case, but said it was “because these officers are taking action, because they know a lot of things.”

“…. they were afraid that they couldn’t direct these people from D7,” he said, without explaining who “they” were.

Musa admitted that many of these people given transfers were those he had promoted at one point, but denied that they were part of his ‘camp’.

“I promoted people because of their capabilities and have done a good job…they were transferred out and not given any ranks.

“[During the D7 redeployment], the whole country, all the IPK contingents  headquarters, some were transferred to the field force.”

“See… they were all good officers, when they were under me they arrested quite a number from the syndicates, but now there are no arrests anymore.

Musa said D7 is the division tasked with cracking down on vice, gambling, loansharks, prostitution and also to investigate syndicated crime.

“So they have all the intelligence about them, especially the bosses. These are the ones [D7 officers] who actually go after the [crime syndicate] top [guns].

‘Politicians involved in transfers’
FMT: Why such transfers under [current IGP] Ismail Omar’s time?
Musa: To make it easier for them to operate-lah, because when I was the IGP, most of them went away, they left the country.

When you say “they” you are referring to?
Musa: The syndicate bosses.

So are you then saying the current IGP is openly allowing syndicates to operate?
Musa: As I have said, this involves very top people, if not the IGP wouldn’t dare to do this. When I say top people, it means politicians lah. If not the IGP wouldn’t dare to do this?

You mean this is linked to politicians?
Musa: [Yes]. Very high level.

Ministerial level?
Musa: Most probably.

Do you know this for a fact or you are guessing?
Musa: I’m not guessing, well you see now they are very freely operating, if they are operating freely then that means they have the blessing of somebody from on top.

Musa also cited examples of a former deputy director in Bukit Aman, CID SAC Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof, who was recently transferred out to be the deputy CPO of Pahang.

“He was labeled as my man. Its not a demotion per se, but they wanted to humiliate him,” he said.

“Why? Just because he was the one who assisted me in the investigation of Sodomy I and the abuse of power case against Anwar Ibrahim, so now, they try to humiliate him by sending him to Pahang. He is the most senior SAC now, together with SAC Mazlan Mansor,” he said.