Ditch preventive laws, says DAP
Ex-IGP Abdul Rahim Noor’s admission that police are crippled without the Emergency Ordinance only proves their decline in competence and professionalism, argues Tony Pua.
(FMT) – He said Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak was correct when the latter announced that “now police must train themselves how to look for evidence” upon repealing the EO.
The government should ignore “disgraced” former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Rahim Noor’s call to reinstate preventive detention laws, DAP urged today.
DAP publicity chief Tony Pua said the ex-IGP’s admission that police were completely helpless since the Emergency Ordinance (EO) was repealed only revealed that their competence and professionalism had “declined to deplorable standards”.
“The police must start to lose their dependence on the EO like a crutch and instead, both the Home Minister and the police must immediately focus the crime-fighting efforts such as restructuring the police force by reallocating more personnel to fight crime and setting up the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC),” said Pua in a statement today.
In making a case for setting up preventive detention laws, Abdul Rahim had said over the weekend that the police force was crippled since the EO, which allows for detention without trial, was repealed in 2011.
