Who will guard against the guards? — Debra Chong
MAY 9 — Another Malaysian teen was at shot by a Malaysian cop yesterday.
by Debra Chong (The Malaysian Insider)
It happened barely two weeks after a 14-year-old Malaysian boy died from a bullet to the head that was fired by another Malaysian policeman in another state in Malaysia.
Malaysia boleh?
You can bet the hounds will be baying for more than just blood this time. Not even a pound of flesh will suffice. Not this time.
Doesn’t matter the 17-year-old was taunting the policeman on duty by wheeling his motorcycle around the patrol car.
Being an annoyance is not a crime. At least not yet, or not in a political way.
Doesn’t matter that the Negri Sembilan police chief took immediate action and suspended the trigger-happy cop – and there is no way the authorities can deny the cop was not trigger-happy, not this time.
Not after they admitted he violated the Inspector-General of Police’s Standard Orders on when a policeman is allowed to fire.
“Since the lives of the policemen were not in danger, he should not have opened fire,” Datuk Osman Salleh was reported saying.
That the senior police officer personally met Mohd Azizi Aziz’s family and apologised for his subordinate shooting the kid in the hip is commendable.
But Malaysians could care less about that right now.
What Malaysians want is a permanent and effective guard against the guardsmen when they fail to protect us.
A highly trained and independent watchdog that will thoroughly investigate the complaints and take serious legal action to redress the wrong.
What we have is a paper tiger in the form of the Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission (EAIC).
Read more at: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/breakingviews/article/who-will-guard-against-the-guards-debra-chong/
