Ponder : Totally Unacceptable conduct of Dzaiddin, the RC and the PM

"Marina Johari"
21/04/2004 03:18 PM
Subject: [malaysiarama] Totally Unacceptable conduct of Dzaiddin, the RC and the PM

TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

• The Royal Commission is INVESTIGATING the Police, and now it is going to hand over compalints about the Police to the IGP to investigate "Royal Commission on the Police will hand over any cases of complaint it receives during its inquiry to the Inspector-General of Police..."



• The complainants would have complained to the RC, not to the IGP
  (How can the RC now hand this over to the IGP). If you are going to hand over complaints to the IGP, then due notice of this should be given to the public - you, RC, cannot hand over these complaints - your act is a breach of confidence & may put complainants in trouble. And we all thought Dzaiddin was OK at one time. Did you Chairperson of the RC or the RC get the permission/consent of the complainants for you to hand over these complaints about the police directed to the Royal Commission?



• and ".."We resolved to do this on the advice of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi"


• WHY is the PM directing the manner the RC conducts his investigation, and WHY is the RC allowing itself to be directed by the PM. Is the RC under the PM... or is it not a ROYAL commission who is supposed to be independent. Mandate given - commissioners appointed - now the RC should carry out its investigation and mandate without any further interference - The PM should not be interfering with the fuctioning of the RC. Shame on you Abdullah A Badawi...


"So far, we have received four complaints against the police..."

• FOUR only... so what about the death in custody cases, are these all not complaints against the police.
  
• anyway if the RC is going to hand over all "complaints" to the IGP to investigate, that will most probably all the complaints that the RC will receive from members of the public - 4 and only 4


• if people wanted to forward complaints to the IGP or the police, they would have done that, and mind you the police was always there

The ROYAL Commission's chairman should STEP down immediately for his actions and his comments that appeared in the Star Report - for what was said, is true, has just made a mockery of the whole Royal Commission.... and if true, what has been said in the said statements, then the RC should just be discontinued... and maybe we should just set up another Royal Commission, and this time we could get MORE Independent persons, who will not be influenced by the "directives" (or was that suggestions) by the PM.

The report which I am reacting to:-

The Star Online News Friday April 16, 2004

Dzaiddin: IGP to probe cases
By SIM LEOI LEOI

PUTRAJAYA: The Royal Commission on the Police will hand over any cases of complaint it receives during its inquiry to the Inspector-General of Police.

Commission chairman Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah said IGP Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Omar would then investigate the case and report its results back to the commission.

"We resolved to do this on the advice of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. The premier has made some comments during our recent meeting with him. He has said the public should be kept informed of our progress.

"He suggested that we look into these cases immediately instead of waiting for a year to end before we come out with the report," he said yesterday.

Dzaiddin said the commission would inform the public of the outcome of the cases.

"Any recommendations on the restructuring of the police force will, however, come much later as we are to submit a preliminary report by Aug 4.

"So far, we have received four complaints against the police - involving the alleged assault of a detainee in Malacca, the slow process of investigation in Penang, a detainee who was denied his right to call his wife in Sabah and a juvenile locked up in the same cell as an adult in Shah Alam," he said, adding that two of the cases had been resolved.

Dzaiddin said although such incidents were not widespread, there was a need to restructure the police force.

"Overall, there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the police," he said.

On the public's response towards the commission, Dzaiddin said feedback in Peninsular Malaysia, particularly outside the capital, had been very good.

Originally posted by Watie on