COMMENT The proposed amendments to the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 to allow detention without trial are symptomatic of a failed transformation programme by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's government to take the country into the league of nations that follow the rule of law.

No other country that espouses adherence to democracy and human rights uses detention without trial laws to tackle crime.

The reasons why this situation has come about and why the government has been helpless in implementing the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) perhaps point to more sinister factors involving skeletons in government leaders' cupboards. And the reason why organised crime has become so intractable in recent years points to rotten apples in the police barrel...