I refer to Thomas Lee's letter regarding his pointers for police investigating the CLP fiasco (Some pointers for police in CLP probe, Dec 3).

Let me give some answers to his pointers, being a CLP candidate myself.

The truth of the matter is that about 287 candidates benefitted from this so-called 'positive discrimination' done by the director (Khalid Yusoff). Out of this, about 95 percent happens to come from a particular 'race', namely the non-Malays (Chinese and Indians). This is easy to verify. Every year, not more than seven to eight percent Malay candidates sit for the CLP. Of this, about 80 percent of them are fresh graduates from established overseas universities who could hold themselves against any other candidates. About 40-50 percent of them will pass the CLP at their first sitting.

May I suggest that the writer urge the police to publish the names of those candidates who benefitted from the director's generosity? Perhaps he could personally interview them to find out whether those candidates personally knew the director or had seen him personally.

I'm sure, if the fact is known that most of those candidates who benefitted from the director's purported tampering are the non-Malays, people like Lim Kit Siang and the rest would not call for the director's head. The so-called 'tampering', reviewing, upgrading or whatever one wants to call it would be done aboveboard and said to benefit the most deserving candidates.

Let's not have a racial overtone in discussing this issue. The fact is, the CLP is there to cater for the non-Malays to enter the legal profession.