Police chief Ismail Omar said he sympathises with the family of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah who was shot and killed by a police officer, but would not offer the apology that the family is seeking.

NONE "We act according to the law. I cannot be emotional about that...It's not that we do not sympathise, a life has been lost, of course we sympathise. But we are a professional body and I act according to the law," he told a press conference in Cheras today.

Ismail was responding to a question as to whether the police would apologise the family in light of last Thursday’s conviction of a police corporal Janain Subi for causing the teenager’s death.

He has been sentenced to five years’ jail but has filed an appeal.

NONE Aminulrasyid’s family remains upset because then Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar had "branded" the boy a criminal immediately after the incident, claiming that he had tried to rear-end the police, causing them to shoot in self-defence.

Khalid, now deputy inspector-general of police, has refused to apologise to the family for his statement.

Rather, he said, the family should apologise because Aminulrasyid had endangered many lives by driving recklessly and not heeding police calls to stop.

The boy's mother, Norsiah Mohamad, a widow, has insisted that the claims are untrue and demanded that her son's name be cleared .

Aminulrasyid was killed on April 26 last year after Jenain fired 21 bullets from a sub-machine gun at the boy's car during a chase.