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I don’t know why but it feels like a Friday. It’s felt like a Friday ever since my company announced that we’d be forced to clear our leave, with the exception of a few days brought forward. That would set me up for 2 weeks of doing completely nothing. Completely nothing. The thought of that just washed away any other thoughts salaried workers think of come year-end. It’s made me more of a rabbit on hyperdrive digging away at holes in the ground, trying to finish up stuff I’d have left over till next month to do. Unfortunately, that also means I’ve been having less sleep than required. Hazardous, my colleagues say, bah fuck: I’ve got more days of leave to clear than they — all of them — have.

Ha. Haha. Ha.

Pathetic isn’t it?
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Some comments and thoughts on what I’ve read so far of the Amnesty International report “Malaysia: Towards Human Rights Policing” which I think we should all give a look through. Among the things mentioned is something I’ve tried putting into words in my previous post here and elsewhere. The same sentiment is worded more clearly in the above report:

“It is widely acknowledged in studies of police that they cannot be effective unless they have the consent of the people being policed. This is achieved when society believes that policing is impartial and carried out on behalf of all the community, rather than favouring certain groups within it. Further, a police service will be most effective, and will maintain the confidence, trust and respect of the public, when it is representative of the community.”

And,

“The [UN General Assembly] Resolution [34/169] and the [UN Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials 1979], by setting out that ‘every law enforcement agency should be representative of and responsive and accountable to the community as a whole‘, establishes a fundamental standard on the nature of human rights-based policing, and the relationship police should have with the communities they serve and the political system within which they function”

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