Shadow Policy Committee

We are referring to the recent announcement made by the defence minister today saying that the military will be deployed this Sunday in order to curb people's movement on the streets and eateries around Malaysia. First of all, why do the defence ministry need to deploy the military? Is there an unrest happening on the streets? The police force already have sufficient manpower to deal with the enforcement of the movement control order. Furthermore, General Operation Force (Pasukan Gerak Am-PGA), the enforcement officers of the various municipal councils nationwide and the voluntary security force (RELA) can also be deployed to assist the police force in enforcing the movement control. The military deployment is completely unnecessary since there is no civil disobedience taking place. It is only the people are still unclear of the situation, given the fact of the government's continuous flip flop on relating information and details to the public. Furthermore there are ...

According to the home minister and Umno vice-president Hishammuddin Hussein, all these PSM 6 detainees arrested in connection with the Bersih 2.0 rally has had "terrorist" connections and their attempt is to establish a communist state in Malaysia. Until today, we have yet to see any evidence from the home minister, the police and special branch and reliable sources from inside the police force also indicated that these 6 detainees were repeatedly interrogated on the Bersih 2.0 programmes and activities instead of the alleged "communist" and "terrorist" activities that the ministry and police officials had alleged to the press. So, which is which? Saying this and doing another. How could we trust this government when it lied to the people not only once but too many times. If both the home ministry and the police force do not have any solid or even a simple evidence, then release all these 6 detainees at once.

Muslim terrorists attempted to set fire to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church here, causing minor damage to the building, another Klang Valley Christian church attacked over two days. Church authorities said the building in Petaling Jaya Old Town was believed to be firebombed sometime between last night and this morning. “The fire-bomb missed a window and caused minor damage,” said Rev Dr Hermen Shastri, the general-secretary of the Council of Churches, Malaysia. When further reports and complaint were made to the police, the inspector-general of police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said that the police force were unable to provide full protection to the churches reasoning that their manpower were short. Tan Sri Musa's explanation was unreasonable given the fact that they had sufficient personnel in the force nationwide to curb the activities and peaceful protest organised by the Pakatan Rakyat component parties all these while. Are they telling us that politics of securing the positions of U...

DAP leaders today urged the police to get their priorities right in Teoh Beng Hock's case, who was found dead outside the Selangor Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) office earlier this year. In a statement today, DAP Socialist Youth (DAPSY) chief Loke Siew Fook said the move to investigate Lim Guan Eng over his remarks at the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) convention last week, showed the police lacked sincerity in solving the case. "By lodging a police report themselves against Guan Eng, the Selangor police have given the impression that they are not so interested in solving the Teoh Beng Hock’s case compared with finding faults with Pakatan Rakyat leaders," said Loke who is also the Rasah MP. What the DAPSY chief had stated is right. The police is merely acting in a political motivated anti Pakatan move ir order to curb the influence of our party leaders. The police wanted to scare PKR, DAP and PAS leaders into giving up their quest for democracy in our country. But our ...

Several Penang-based Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are against the police's move to raid residential houses for pirated discs. Penang Consumer Protection Association (PCPA) president K.Koris Atan said the move was "not feasible and ridiculous", adding that it was just a rumour being circulated by the public."What if the consumer themselves burn a copy of movie or songs for their own consumption and keep the discs, is that wrong? The police have to use their own discretion in this matter," he said.Koris said the police had more urgent matters to attend to, like maintaining peace and public order, than to go after individuals with pirated discs. "The police and the Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry should go after the big fish instead, like those involved with illegally manufacturing such discs," he added. Penang CPO Datuk Wira Ayub Yaakob said the police may check homes and set up roadblocks in the states to search for pirated discs or video a...

The police were told to stop politicking and work on their crime prevention efforts effectively. Right now, we noticed that the police force is focusing its entire workforce in helping Umno to curb opposition political activities which are deemed to anger Umno. Even when an NGO called JERIT organised its cycling tour around the nation, the police had send out almost half of its workforce to curb this event. Why do they want to curb JERIT's activities, what crime have they committed so far? Did they carry weapons and harm any passer bys or the public? When manning the road blocks in order to detain the JERIT cyclist, these policemen were holding semi-automatic machineguns and other weapons as well. Looks like the police are terrorising the people and not protecting the people from the increasing crime spree nowadays. They are just too busy entertaining to a lots of Umno's request to curb the influence of the opposition parties.