no power for ruling coalition if IPCMC is set up

we alll know that the police force is very against the setting up of the independant police complaints and misconduct commission (IPCMC). well, now the royal malaysian police force (or PDRM, its acronymn in bahasa malaysia) present to you the reasons why they are against the IPCMC – a special page dedicated to the IPCMC.

i notice that some of the reasons looks more like threats. consider this – the first reason (from IPCMC: why we don’t need it):

The explicit and implicit effect of the formation of IPCMC is that the real organ which exercise powers of control over the Police will be the commissioners of the IPCMC and NOT the Minister. Let politicians beware that they will eventually lose powers, control and influence over a neutral, professional and people-centered Police (as suggested by the Royal Commission).

see? “let politicans beware …..” – does that sounds like a warning to the politicians?

then “they will lose powers, contronl and influence…..” – gee, so the politicians control the police? the police is not independant?

“people-centred police” – ?? huh? i thought they were just telling us it is a “polician-centred police”.

then we have, as malaysiakini highlighted:

In a special editon of an internal bulletin of Berita Bukit Aman, the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) attacked the IPCMC among others as ‘unconstitutional, prejudicial to national security and public order, can cause a state of anarchy and undermines the ruling coaltion’s power.

and who is the ruling coalition? why, UMNO of course. what is the police trying to tells us then? according to ktemoc, he believe that PDRM is telling everyone that the police force is for UMNO, and to ensure UMNO stays in power. hmm… interesting. do you agree?

again continue from the above, what malaysiakini highlighted:

The bulletin also warned that if the IPCMC is established by the present Barisan Nasional-led government, the police force would vote for the opposition party in the coming election.

whoa! threatening the government? what would be the government’s response to this, i wonder? surely they won’t say “ok go ahead and vote for the opposition. the IPCMC must be set up.” oh no. the government (or rather UMNO because government is control by UMNO… or as ktemoc said, UMNO is the government, the government is UMNO) needs the police on their side.

i wonder why is the PDRM so against the IPCMC… if they have nothing to fear/hide. IPCMC would be a good body if it comprises of people from all different levels – e.g. a member from UMNO,MCA, MIC, PAS, DAP, NGO, the ordinary public, professional and non professional and so on. they can act on the public’s complaints of the police without bias and prejudiced. as it is, PDRM said they are now answerable to the ministers/government, that is good enough… but that means they are only answerable to UMNO! like that, how can! so we do need IPCMC to ensure that there is ‘fair play’ during an investigation when a complaint on the police is brought up.

anyway with all these ‘warnings’ from PDRM, it looks like the government might scrapped the idea of setting up of the IPCMC… despite the many thousands signatures collected from the petition for IPCMC. well, these are signatures of the rakyat… since when do the government listen to the rakyat?