Tunku Abdul Aziz

Oleh Norasikin Samsi (Suara Keadilan)

KUALA LUMPUR 3 Mei – Naib Pengerusi DAP, Senator Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim mendesak Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa Hassan meletak jawatan dengan segera berikutan kelemahan serta kegagalan beliau menjalankan tanggungjawab menjaga keselamatan negara terutama sekali apabila peningkatan kadar jenayah semakin berleluasa.

Tunku Abdul Aziz berkata desakan itu juga dibuat berhubung kenyataan Musa yang mengugut untuk menarik balik anggota polis daripada berkawal di jalan raya selepas insiden remaja berusia 14 tahun, Aminulrasyid Amzah yang mati ditembak polis di Shah Alam pada 26 April lalu.

Katanya, reaksi Musa itu sekaligus melambangkan sikapnya yang tidak boleh menerima kritikan orang lain apabila sesuatu isu berhubung keselamatan awam mahupun kelemahan institusi Polis DiRaja Malaysia dibangkitkan.

“Dia ni memang tak boleh terima kritikan langsung. Kalau kita buat apa-apa kritik, dia terus mengugut untuk menarik balik anggotanya daripada menjalankan tugas. Ini jelas menunjukkan bahawa dia seorang yang tak boleh menerima kritikan orang lain sedangkan tugas utama beliau adalah menjaga keselamatan negara. Dia ingat institusi polis dia yang punya,” katanya dalam sidang media di lobi Parlimen hari ini selepas sidang Dewan Negara.

Dalam pada itu, Tunku Abdul Aziz turut mengkritik peranan PDRM yang sebelum ini memaklumkan bahawa kadar jenayah di Malaysia berjaya diturunkan sedangkan hakikat sebenar berlaku sebaliknya.

“Apa yang dia cakapkan bahawa kadar jenayah telahpun menurun adalah tidak betul. Jika kita tengok masa sekarang di tempat dan kawasan yang kita tinggal baik di bandar mahupun di kampung jenayah semakin bertambah.

“Saya baru balik dari Tawau dan Tawau paling banyak berlaku jenayah di Malaysia dan sekarang banyak bandar dan kampung di Semenanjung dah jadi macam Tawau juga,” katanya lagi.

Sehubungan itu, beliau menggesa Ketua Polis Negara meletakkan jawatan dan posisinya digantikan oleh orang lain yang lebih layak.

“Dah nak bersara lagi enam bulan bagi jadi KPN, lepas itu apa dia (kementerian) buat sambung balik lagi setahun dua tahun, tak guna. Kita mahukan orang lain yang lebih bagus daripadanya. Kalau dia mudapun sekalipun kita tak peduli, sekurang-kurangnya bagi dia peluang dalam jangka lima tahun untuk merubah dan memperbaiki sistem polis yang sememangnya dah teruk.

“Kalau kita masih lagi mempertahankan KPN yang bersikap sebegini, saya ingat negara kita akan jadi lebih teruk daripada sekarang,” katanya lagi.

Terdahulu bercakap dalam sidang media yang sama, Senator S Ramakrishnan menggesa PDRM mengemukakan satu sistem prosedur yang berkesan bagi menangani kes tembakan oleh anggota polis.

“Walaupun KPN telah bersetuju untuk menubuhkan satu inkues tetapi perkara ini mestilah dibincangkan juga memandangkan pada tahun 2008 juga 2009 ada kes yang langsung tidak disiasat.

“Berapa banyak kes orang awam mati ditembak polis sebelum ini dan sehingga sekarang kejadian seperti ini masih berterusan sehingga melibatkan remaja berusia 14 tahun.

“Ini bukan kejadian pertama kali berlaku. Sudah banyak kali dan sehingga sekarang tiada apa-apa siasatan. Ini menunjukkan polis tidak cekap. Sepatutnya sebaik sahaja selepas tembakan berlaku, siasatan segera hendaklah dijalankan,” katanya.

Ramakrishnan bakal membentangkan usul tergempar berhubung kes kematian Aminulrasyid di Dewan Negara esok.

Menurutnya, tujuan usul berkenaan adalah bagi menyegerakan kes tersebut supaya disiasat secara profesional dan telus serta mendapat pembelaan yang sewajarnya.

Corruption and gross inefficiency make for a lethal concoction. In Malaysia everything that goes wrong is traceable to either one or both of these factors, and we Malaysians do not have far to cast our eye to see examples of enforcement that have gone awry.

Everywhere we go in Malaysia, in urban centres as well as remote rural hamlets, we see foreigners in our midst toiling away day and night at jobs that Malaysians won’t touch with a long barge pole.

It is clear that these people, the overwhelming majority are illegal, are performing a useful economic function, and it is equally obvious that we cannot do without them, such is their penetration into virtually every aspect of Malaysian life. Why, then, don’t we look the problem in the face and do something right by both the country and these illegals who are here for the long haul?

My greatest concern is the ever present threat posed by many of them to security and public order. The large concentrations of illegal Indonesians are a matter of real concern given their known propensity for criminal activities, including armed robberies. The police are doing the best they can, but the rising crime rates are signs pointing to their failure to keep serious crimes under control, in spite of protestations to the contrary by the IGP.

It is not that they do not know the cause of the problem, but they are reduced to merely treating the symptoms because of conflicting ministerial policies. With millions of people from all over Asia who have overstayed their welcome, we persist with the utterly mindless facility of granting visas on arrival to all and sundry.

I once saw a gaggle of bedraggled South Asian “tourists” swarming over an immigration counter for their right of entry under our tourism promotion campaign. Anyone who was not blind could see that Malaysia Truly Asia was a million miles from their minds.

I know that tourism is important to our economy, but what we are implementing is tantamount to an open door policy, particularly in light of a very real terrorist threat to internal, and by extension, global peace and security. Our VOA policy has earned us the kind of notoriety that we need like a hole in the head.

We are seen by human traffickers, drug smugglers, and assorted terrorists in transit as corrupt and flexible in our official transactions. “Malaysia Boleh” of the Mahathir era was not the Freudian slip that we thought. It was a true reflection of “anything goes” in our country. This is what has dragged Malaysia to its current position in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.

We are perceived as a country where corruption in the public service has intruded into every level of officialdom. We may not agree with the verdict of the international community on our moral rectitude or as far as our corrupt behaviour is concerned, because it is argued by the practitioners of corruption among us that these are nothing more than perceptions.

What they forget is that while perceptions may not have any basis in fact, they are real and do influence and cloud the thinking of overseas decision makers.

Tinkering around the edges of our failed immigration policy on foreign labour is not the answer. We have to make a conscious political decision to legalise those who are already here by registering them and giving them a two year stay, renewable subject to conditions. At least in this way we know who they are. Those who are not registered will be regarded as illegal and appropriate action will then be taken.

There must be a more orderly way of dealing with this very important national issue because by leaving matters as they are, they are not going to go away. If we have a proper system of foreign worker registration, we will reduce police harassment and extortion, common complaints by these illegal workers.

We have had instances of illegal workers under detention fighting the police and other enforcement officers because they are fed up with the continual acts of extortion. The police should set up a special undercover unit to monitor police operations against these illegals to make sure that human rights abuses do not take place.

An all party parliamentary committee should be established to study the issues involved and make appropriate recommendations for implementation. (By TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ/MySinchew)

The only reasonable conclusion I can draw as a reasonable man from the PDRM raid on the DAP headquarters last Saturday evening is that the police leadership need their heads examined for signs of mental degeneration.

It was Euripides (480–406 BC) the Greek playwright who said, “Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.” Police behaviour in recent times has convinced me more than ever that there is something rotten in the state of our country, with apologies to William Shakespeare.

The beleaguered police, as far as we are concerned, are in moral retreat. It beggars the imagination that with all the relentless assault on their reputation, they do not seem to care one iota about public opinion.

This is frightening self-indulgence. To be deaf to public strictures is really a symptom of a deep malaise associated with a diseased culture of impunity that has brutalised the police psyche.

For the guardians of the law to show nothing but utter contempt, disregard and disdain for the legitimate concerns about their actions, often bordering on the criminal, is indeed a serious breach of stewardship and public trust, the antithesis of ethical policing in a democratic society.

I plead guilty to being one of the harshest critics of the police. I am hard on them because I so desperately want them to succeed. At the same time, I can claim to be their admirer when they not only operate within the law, but, more to the point, when they are seen to be both law-abiding and respectful of the rights of every individual under the law.

I want a police service that is among the best that I can be proud of, and not “the best police force in the world that money can buy.”
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