YOURSAY 'Bravo. IGP is arresting citizens for their spirit of volunteerism.'
Exco grilled for four hours, treated like 'criminal'
Appum: Inspector-general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, since it was the Penang governor (bless him) who asked to initiate this Penang Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) programme, don't you think you should query him for his bright idea?
As for you calling the civic-conscious volunteers, gangsters in uniforms, why don't you make a trip to downtown Kuala Lumpur in the late evenings and see for yourself (actually I think you are acutely aware) the hundreds of leather-jacketed mat rempits gathered there for god-knows-what activities of intimidation?
KnockKnock: Gangsters in uniform? They are more like girl guides and boy scouts. Only those with destructive minds would want to think otherwise.
If they are truly gangsters, the public themselves would have confronted them even before the police could do so.
Anonymous_1400076912: Bravo. IGP is arresting citizens for their spirit of volunteerism. Not only that, he is giving a new name to it - "gangsterism in uniform".
The irony is that he himself acts like a gangster in uniform. If not, why would he arrest citizens who help others in disasters and render community services?
Jaguh: Since the IGP claimed that the Penang Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) members are all gangsters, ask him to prove it. If he is wrong, he has to resign and disappear from the face of the earth.
Malaysia Truly Asia: "At least, my men know that I have not abandoned them and that if they have to spend the night in a lock-up, so would I," said the 62-year-old politician with a distinctive crop of snow-white hair."
"My men". And you still want to say that this is not a security threat?
Anonymous_3faa: Phee Boon Poh, congratulations for being baptised into the ranks of the righteous who have been oppressed and subjugated by the high-handed actions of the IGP.
You have our gratitude. Keep up the good work. God is always on the side of those who seek His righteousness.
Peacemaker: Phee should consider suing the IGP for false arrest and wrongful imprisonment. The police have done this gentleman wrong and should be made to pay.
The Observer: Disrupting and arresting innocent people during official Merdeka Day celebrations, disrupting and charging people during weddings, disrupting and carting away bodies during funerals. Standard operating procedures?
Where is our sense of decency and civility.
Continue-The-March: Look around the city of Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya. On almost every street and housing estate, we have to barricade the area and employ full-time security companies.
If the police had done their job professionally and the security of the people assured, why do ordinary folks have to fork out their own money to pay for security?
This is the failure of the police in doing their job. Instead of focusing on their core responsibility they have become an apparatus of Umno Baru to suppress the common people volunteering to do the job of the police.
Anonymous_1Ingrate: JKKK (Village Security and Development Committees) is perfectly legal because it is an Umno's initiative and certainly pro-Umno. PPS is illegal because it is the initiative of the DAP-ruled Penang government.
PPS is very effective in discharging its duty diligently and has irked Umno's feeling. The IGP actually appreciates the work of PPS for lowering crime in the state but Umno is very uncomfortable with it. As said earlier, this country is getting rotten by the day.
Hank Marvin: Phee, you will go down in history as a hero. PPS, just like Unit Amal of PAS, are just there to help; to do something which should have been done by the police who are somehow busy with political policing ordered by Umno-BN.
James_3392: Penang, remember this dark moment face by PPS members and their families, remember this till the next GE, and show your support and your disapproval on the ballot papers.
Dont Just Talk: Bersih should get the delineation exercise right for the coming 14th general election, meaning ‘one Malaysian, one vote’, and 52 percent means the majority and get to form the federal government - not by those who have less than 48 percent of the vote, which is what we have now.
Two terms of rule under an opposition party will provide sufficient time to cleanse all the ills/wrongs in Malaysia, which has been under the same party since Merdeka.
TingTing: How sad the way things are going in Malaysia. The decay gets worse. Not long we will be the ‘Africa’ in Asia - lawless and highly corrupted.
Concerned1: Has the IGP the power to declare any group or organisation illegal? Penang CM Lim Guan Eng is right to seek legal action to clarify this.
Kilgore: Brilliant police work - detecting a secret society as they marched down a street wearing uniforms.
Now, if the strategy of 'hoping robbers and snatch thieves will handcuff themselves and walk into police stations' pays off, we could have a crime free nation.
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