KUALA LUMPUR: Lim Kit Siang today urged the government not to renew the services of Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan whose contract is due to end next September.
Musa retired in 2007, but his contract was extended for another two years.
In his statement, Lim said Musa has failed to restore public confidence in the police force and to implement recommendations by a royal commission to improve the force in 2005.
The commission was formed during the early days of the Tun Abdullah Badawi administration in an attempt to prove his reformist credentials. It outlined 125 recommendations to improve the police force.
“In the four years after the Royal Police Commission Report, crime index kept 'reaching for the stars'. In the seven years from 1997 to 2004, crime index increased by 29 per cent, but in the four years from 2004 to 2008 crime index increased by 35.5 per cent,” said Lim.
“How can an Inspector General of Police who presided over such a deterioration in the crime situation demand an extension of this renewed term of Inspector General of Police in September?” he added.
Lim also accused Musa of failing to eradicate corruption in the force and to uphold human rights.
“Clearly the Police Royal Commission’s proposal that the police officers should undergo human rights 'sensitisation' orientation courses have fallen on deaf ears, with police violation of human rights in recent months most blatant and flagrant – with indiscriminate police arrests of Malaysians for wearing black, lighting candles, singing birthday songs and the deployment of hundreds of police personnel who should be catching criminals but were dispatched instead to frustrate the holding of DAP dinners,” said Lim.
He invited the public to give more reasons why the police chief should be replaced, in his blog.
MI
02/07/09
Musa retired in 2007, but his contract was extended for another two years.
In his statement, Lim said Musa has failed to restore public confidence in the police force and to implement recommendations by a royal commission to improve the force in 2005.
The commission was formed during the early days of the Tun Abdullah Badawi administration in an attempt to prove his reformist credentials. It outlined 125 recommendations to improve the police force.
“In the four years after the Royal Police Commission Report, crime index kept 'reaching for the stars'. In the seven years from 1997 to 2004, crime index increased by 29 per cent, but in the four years from 2004 to 2008 crime index increased by 35.5 per cent,” said Lim.
“How can an Inspector General of Police who presided over such a deterioration in the crime situation demand an extension of this renewed term of Inspector General of Police in September?” he added.
Lim also accused Musa of failing to eradicate corruption in the force and to uphold human rights.
“Clearly the Police Royal Commission’s proposal that the police officers should undergo human rights 'sensitisation' orientation courses have fallen on deaf ears, with police violation of human rights in recent months most blatant and flagrant – with indiscriminate police arrests of Malaysians for wearing black, lighting candles, singing birthday songs and the deployment of hundreds of police personnel who should be catching criminals but were dispatched instead to frustrate the holding of DAP dinners,” said Lim.
He invited the public to give more reasons why the police chief should be replaced, in his blog.
MI
02/07/09
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