On police procedures and abuse
For those interested, Amnesty International had posted a rather long document on their recommendations for police reform in Malaysia. Isn’t it sad? We’ve had a Royal Commission to examine our police force, and outsiders making benign recommendations and still nothing seems to change. You can find a link over here:
It’s been a crazy past few days, but it’s gratifying to see the nation up in arms over the police abuse scandal - even more so than the AP abuse scandal. Everyone seems to be talking about it. My colleagues are a bit more blaise about it all, mostly because we all seem up close and personal how the police deal with matters.
I’ll have to look out for the news tomorrow in the papers: the incumbent either reacts in the way the public expects it to, or there will be more murmurs in the dark about abuse. To have all of this come at the heels of the Royal Commission on the Police is even more telling: that all of this goes on unchecked, despite the spotlight being on the police at the time.
The police have always had an image problem. As one commenter on another site concluded, it appeared as if the police and the incumbent works hand-in-glove with each other. I wonder how much of this is true, and I wouldn’t want to speculate without getting some facts. But the questions now are more insistent than ever.
It almost makes me forget I’m still doing office work at home.
