Integrity Commission bill for Parliament

(The Malaysian Insider) – A bill on the Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission (Siap) will be tabled in Parliament soon.

The commission will set out procedures and guidelines on how enforcement is to be conducted as well as investigate complaints of misconduct and abuse of power.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, said in a meeting on the matter he attended today several final decisions had been made involving various enforcement agencies.

“Hopefully the bill will be ready for this session (of parliament), and if it is, first reading will be done in March followed by second and third reading and it will be tabled by Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar,” he told reporters after he launched ‘The Red Book pamphlet’ at the Bar Council office here today.

The pamphlet contains useful information for the public and gives details about steps that needed to be taken if a person were detained by police besides providing awareness of the rights of an individual under the law.

It is published by the Bar Council in English and is in its second edition and will be translated into Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil in the following edition.