{"id":4739,"date":"2011-02-18T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/02\/refusal-to-set-up-ipcmc\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:42:10","slug":"refusal-to-set-up-ipcmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/refusal-to-set-up-ipcmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Refusal to set up IPCMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/LKS.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/LKS.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><em><strong>&#8211; strongest proof of continuing lack of political will to eradicate police abuses and corruption<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein\u2019s reiteration that the  government still has no plans of forming an Independent Police  Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) is the strongest proof of  continuing lack of political will to eradicate police abuses and  corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysians will remember that it was Hishammuddin when he was Umno  Youth leader who led the opposition to the establishment of the IPCMC  more than five years ago when it was proposed by the Dzaiddin Royal  Police Commission as the most important of its 125 recommendations to  create an efficient, incorruptible, professional and world-class police  force, going even against the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah  Ahmad Badawi who had publicly committed himself to accept and implement  the IPCMC recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>It was the combination of political opposition from Umno and police  opposition led by the police leadership at the time which forced  Abdullah to backtrack and finally scuttled the IPCMC proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The spate of high-profile cases of police abuse and custodial  deaths in the past few years, whether A. Kugan, 14-year-old student  Aminurasyhid Amzah, framemaker Chia Buang Hing and pregnant store owner  Chow Soo Meng, as well as human rights abuses by the police as in the  weekend mass arrests of 59 Hindraf marchers protesting the controversial  use of Interlok as school textbook have again highlighted the need for  an IPCMC where public complaints of police abuses could be seen to be  addressed with full seriousness, authority, independence, impartiality  and professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>The Dzaiddin Police Royal Commission\u2019s recommendations, including  those for increased allowances, improved emoluments and upgrading of  posts have largely been implemented except for the most important one  going to the root of public confidence in the efficiency, integrity and  professionalism of the police force \u2013 an IPCMC to demonstrate that the  police will never be a law unto itself but is equally to account to the  public for abuses and misuses of power.<\/p>\n<p>With the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak\u2019s \u201cPeople First,  Performance Now\u201d slogan, Hishammuddin as Home Minister should table a  formal proposal to ask the  Cabinet to revisit the Dzaiddin Police Royal  Commission\u2019s IPCMC recommendation instead of continuing to spearhead  opposition to IPCMC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em>Media statement by Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 17<sup>th<\/sup> February 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; strongest proof of continuing lack of political will to eradicate police abuses and corruptionHome Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein\u2019s reiteration that the government still has no plans of forming an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) is the strongest proof of continuing lack of political will to eradicate police abuses and corruption. 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