On and off, you might be hearing question like this: How lawless can it be in Malaysia, amidst growing concern over the public safety in view of rising crimes?

Most of the time, I guess the feedback received are more or less not in favor of the police force with some of them giving unreserved scathing remarks due to their personal bad encounters with the police force, which is understandable, but then again, to be fair, these are the arbitrary perspective views without any definite conclusion, nevertheless I always take precautionary measure whenever I’m on the move.

Accidentally, I found out the answer today and to my horror, it’s an unpleasant one.

(SOURCE: The Star, 24 June 2008)
This is utterly disgusting and will surely tarnish the image of the police force which has long suffered a reputation for bribery, inefficiency and failure to respect human rights.

If demolishing a Mongolian into pieces using C4 is a ruthless act, I hope the Government and the IGP Musa Hassan are going to take equally serious consideration into this allegation too.

For the public to lose confidence towards the police force is one thing, however if we’re to have the sense of insecurity towards the police albeit their presence in which its utmost responsibility is to safeguard the public interest but end up with them standing on the wrong side of the law is something which is totally unacceptable to the society in a whole, hence severe punitive measure must be meted out against the culprit to deter any possible recurrence of such unfortunate event in the future.

Now, when I seriously think about it, besides the unstable flip-flop government combined with the rest of gloomy factors plus the circumstance above, I guess we need to look hard for reasons to increase the country’s Happy Planet Index (HPI).

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