LETTER | EAIC not competent to investigate ex-IGP s allegations
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LETTER | The current Inspector-General of Police Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said that the police had sent a letter to the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) inviting the oversight body to investigate claims of serious police misconduct exposed by the former IGP Abdul Hamid Bador Bador just before he retired.
So the police, in this case, do not want to investigate the police. Well, that s good.
But what s not is that it is not for the police to decide who should investigate the police. This is because the police are an interested party. You don t let an interested party decide who should investigate it like how you don t allow parties in a court case to decide on the judge that should hear their case.
LETTER | Stop harassing media for their reporting
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LETTER | The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), Gerakan Media Merdeka (Geramm) and National Union of Journalists (NUJM) are alarmed by the frequent use of harassment tactics by the Malaysian authorities toward the media.
On May 18, 2021, two
Malaysiakini journalists were summoned by the police to give their statements over three articles relating to the death of A Ganapathy who died while seeking treatment in the hospital after being arrested by the police in early February this year.
Just prior to that, on May 10, 2021,
It is a worrying pattern to see journalists being summoned by the police for their reporting. This year alone, we saw at least five incidents where journalists are being questioned and investigated. It is alarming that the same media outlet is being targeted and this year alone,
May 12, 2021
Former Malaysian police chief Abdul Hamid Bador.
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When Malaysia ’s former police chief last week took aim at government officials over their links to elite officers as he passed the reins to his successor, insiders who had long discussed the issue in hushed tones found their suspicions brought out in the open.
Abdul Hamid Bador, who stepped down as the national inspector-general of police on Monday (May 3), had unleashed an unbridled attack at Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin ’s government that drew particular attention to the current Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin.
“I was informed that the minister had forced the Special Branch to conduct several operations for its own political purposes,” he was quoted as saying by The Malaysia Gazette newspaper.
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Tan Sri Hamid Bador, who has just retired as Malaysia s police chief, has continued to attack unnamed politicians for trying to make the force do its political bidding.
Mr Hamid has now claimed in an interview that the refusal by the Special Branch - a unit within police headquarters - to carry out certain orders had led to threats to end the contract of the head of the intelligence unit.
He said in an interview with the Sinar Harian daily newspaper, published on Tuesday (May 4), that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin was informed of the Special Branch s discontent at being turned into a political tool.