Drama Bangkok Raja Petra-PDRM berterusan

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 April — “Drama Bangkok” melibatkan Raja Petra Kamarudin dan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) berterusan sehingga lewat petang ini dengan kedua-dua pihak bertukar-tukar SMS menanti sama satu lain berhubung usaha pihak berkuasa itu untuk mendapatkan kenyataan blogger kontroversial tersebut.

PDRM menghantar anggotanya ke Bangkok untuk bertemu dengan Raja Petra semalam, tetapi usaha itu tidak menjadi kenyataan selepas beliau tidak mahu kenyataannya diambil di Kedutaan Malaysia.

Raja Petra (gambar) hanya bersetuju jika keterangan diambil di hotel beliau tinggal.

Peguam dan isteri Raja Petra khuatir ia sebagai satu helah untuk menahan beliau dan dibawa balik ke Malaysia.

Peguam Raja Petra, Haris Ibrahim menulis bahawa beliau telah memaklumkan kakitangan Kedutaan Malaysia di Bangkok, Abdul Hamid Bulat yang Raja Petra bersedia untuk diambil keterangan di lobi Siam City Hotel pada pukul 5 petang ini (6 petang waktu Malaysia).

“Pada pukul 1.26 tengah hari waktu Bangkok hari ini, saya menghantar SMS berikut kepada Hamid: ‘Engku (Raja Petra) dan saya akan berada di lobi Siam City Hotel pada pukul 5 petang untuk memberi kenyataan kepada ACP Aziz. Tq’,” kata Haris dalam maklumat terkini di blognya, petang ini.

Dalam maklumat dikemaskinikan kemudian, Haris berkata seorang lagi peguam Raja Petra, Amarjit Sindhu menerima SMS daripada Hamid mengatakan bahawa pihak polis masih menunggu untuk mengambil kenyataan blogger itu di pejabat kedutaan.

“Marina, RPK dan saya menunggu di lobi hotel dari (pukul) 5 hingga 5.30 petang. Tiada polis (datang). (Jadi) kami bertolak untuk makan malam,” kata Haris dalam maklumat mutakhir.

Blogger kontroversial itu berada di Bangkok sempena majlis pelancaran Pergerakan Bebas Sivil Malaysia (MCLM) cabang Thailand.

Raja Petra telah diminta oleh pegawai-pegawai Kedutaan Malaysia di Bangkok agar pergi ke pejabat misi di ibu negara Thailand untuk kenyataannya diambil kira-kira 8 malam waktu Thai semalam, kata kenyataan MCLM dikeluarkan di sini sekitar 8 malam waktu Malaysia semalam.

Bagaimanapun maklumat portal Malaysia Today dan blog Haris pagi tadi berkata, Raja Petra tidak memberikan sebarang kenyataan kepada polis sehingga 2 pagi tadi.

Kenyataan semalam menambah, pegawai-pegawai Kedutaan Malaysia menyampaikan permintaan itu sebelum majlis dihadiri Raja Petra di Florida Hotel bermula.

Tulisan Raja Petra tengah hari tadi menyebut polis mahu mengambil kenyataannya ekoran aduan berhubung laporan Utusan Malaysia susulan temu bual dengan TV3 dua minggu lalu.

Dalam satu temu bual bersama TV3 yang disiarkan 13 April lalu, Raja Petra mendakwa beliau tidak pernah menuduh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak atau isterinya terbabit dalam kes pembunuhan Altantuya lima tahun lalu.

Sebaliknya, pengendali portal Malaysia Today itu berkata, beliau didesak dan dipengaruhi untuk berbuat demikian oleh beberapa individu yang tidak mahu Najib mengambil alih jawatan perdana menteri.

Sehubungan itu kata Raja Petra, akuan bersumpah (SD) yang dibuat beliau pada 18 Jun 2008 hanya bersandarkan maklumat diperoleh daripada beberapa individu.

Menurut Raja Petra, seorang pegawai perisik angkatan tentera dikenali sebagai Leftenan Kolonel Azmi juga memberi maklumat yang sama.

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Police no longer hide behind pillars for traffic ops

Police no longer hide behind pillars in carrying out traffic operations, said Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar.

"We no longer hide behind pillars, but issue summonses immediately, and those issued with summonses should not forget to settle their fines," he said during a dialogue session with 1,000 Indian youths at the programme, 'A Day With the Police' at the Selangor Police Headquarters, here today.

Khalid said this when responding to a statement by a dialogue participant that the frequent police presence on the road lately had resulted in drivers being more disciplined on the road compared to the past when policemen hid at the end of the road and emerging from their hiding place to stop traffic offenders.

Khalid later told a media conference that the physical presence of the policemen during traffic operations had started not long ago.

"Don't be surprised if you are issued with a summons ... we shouldn't be hiding, we will come out in the open and enforce the law," he said.

On efforts by the police to curb gangsterism among the Indian community in Selangor as raised by several participants, he said besides prosecuting them in court, police also carried out preventive measures. -- Bernama

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No confidence in new Deputy IGP Khalid Bakar

FMT LETTER

From N Surendran, via e-mail

I’m appalled by appointment of Khalid Abu Bakar as Deputy Inspector-General of police. This paves the way for his eventual appointment as IGP. Some of the worst instances of abuse of power by police took place under Khalid when he was Chief Police Officer of Selangor. This includes the notorious police torture-murder of A Kugan in January 2009 and the fatal police shooting of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah. Police attempted to cover-up both cases.

Despite bearing ultimate responsibility, Khalid has never apologised or accepted any blame for these two murders. To make things worse, in the case of A Kugan, Khalid initially gave the ridiculous explanation that Kugan drank a glass of water and then collapsed and died. This despite the horrendous injuries on his tortured body.

In Aminulrasyid’s case, Khalid suggested that the 14-year-old boy was a criminal and that he had tried reverse the car into the policemen. This false allegation merely increased the sorrow and suffering of Aminulrasyid’s family.

Public confidence in the Royal Malaysian Police remains extremely low in the wake of incidents such as these, compounded by the unlawful and unjust use of police powers against the political opposition and civil society.

The police force and its leadership must be comprehensively reformed. Police recruitment and training methods must be reviewed. The IPCMC must be set up to curb abuse of police powers.

In this regard, the appointment of Khalid Abu Bakar is a retrograde step, does not inspire confidence and will not put the police force on the path to real reform. In making such key appointments, the government must unfailingly take into account public interest.

This they have once again failed to do.

The writer is a prominent human rights lawyer and vice president of Keadilan

The writer is a prominent human rights lawyer and vice president of Keadilan

- http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2011/04/14/no-confidence-in-new-deputy-igp-khalid-bakar/

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IGP says man in sex video identified

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 – Police have identified the man in the sex video allegedly featuring Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Tan Sri Ismail Omar said today.

The Inspector-General of Police (picture) said however that the police will not reveal the identity of the individual.

Ismail said that the investigation papers on the sex video probe will be completed next week.

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MP, Hindraf supporters arrested for illegal assembly

IPOH : The police today arrested 14 people, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj and several Hindraf Makkal Sakthi supporters, for staging a peaceful protest outside the state assembly building.

The state assembly was in session when the arrests took place. The police said the protesters were arrested for failing to disperse after taking part in an illegal gathering.

The protesters had gathered to highlight the plight of Kampung Dewan Bandaraya Ipoh who have not been granted land titles for more than 10 years.

The residents want the BN-led government to sort out their land titles issues as soon as possible.

Among those arrested included Hindraf’s national secretary P Ramesh, who claimed that he had suffered injuries while being arrested as a result of police assault.

He has been taken to the Ipoh general hospital for treatment.

Hindraf’s legal advisor P Uthayakumar said Ramesh was kicked in the stomach and stepped on his
back by the police.

“He was also kicked on his head and neck. As a result he can’t even stand up properly and started vomiting. He was taken by an ambulance from the Ipoh district police headquarters to the Ipoh General Hospital,” he told FMT.

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POLIS DAPAT PETUNJUK BARU

Syabas pada polis kerana berjaya mendapatkan bukti bukti yang dipercayai dapat membantu siasatan terhadap punca kematian Penolong Pengarah Kastam Selangor di pejabat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah (SPRM) Wilayah Persekutuan di Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur 6 April lepas.

”Terdapat beberapa perkembangan baru yang berkaitan dengan kematian Allahyarham khususnya terdapatnya klu dan keterangan bahawa kemungkinan besar Allahyarham tidak membunuh diri,” kata Ghazali Mohd Ramli, peguam yang mewakili keluarga Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed.

Ahmad Sarbaini, 55, yang dijumpai mati di kawasan bangunan pejabat SPRM adalah seorang daripada 62 pegawai kastam yang menjadi tumpuan Operasi 3B kendalian SPRM dan beberapa agensi kerajaan yang lain berhubung kegiatan rasuah dan aktiviti penggubahan wang haram.

Bercakap pada sidang akhbar di pejabatnya di sini, Ghazali berkata, beberapa petunjuk dan keterangan daripada orang perseorangan itu telah diserah kepada polis Ahad lepas.
Beliau berkata, berdasarkan daripada maklumat dan petunjuk yang diserahkan kepada polis itu terdapat percanggahan dengan apa yang telah dinyatakan oleh SPRM.

Kamalfarsya

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