The cousins’ Raya gift to 1Malaysia…
By Jeff Ooi
There are no better cops in the entire police force than Musa Hassan.
So, his term as the IGP was extended by another year — the second extension after his age-inflicted retirement in 2007. His shelf-life has been re-tagged to September 13, 2010.
This Raya angpau was gift-wrapped yesterday. On the advice of the prime minister (Najib Razak) and with endorsement of the Police Force Commission, which is headed by the home minister (Hishammuddin Hussein, Najib's cousin), constitutional monarch the Yang di-Pertuan Agong had given his consent to extend Musa's tenure.
Crime index up by 35.5%
If track record is a criteria to Musa's extension of service, here is one.
It was revealed at a recent parliamentary round-table on the the tenure of the IGP that in the seven years from 1997 to 2004, crime index increased by 29%; but in the four years from 2004 to 2008 — when Musa was in office as the IGP — crime index increased by 35.5%!
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