COMMENT | I feel for Inspector-General of Police Abdul Hamid Bador. I believe he has tried his best to clean up the police force but so far, there isn’t much progress.

At least, that is the public perception pertaining to corruption and disciplinary problems in the Police department.

When Abdul Hamid returned to Bukit Aman in 2018 after having opted for retirement earlier, we were all elated.

Here was a police officer who was known to be “clean, untainted and above board” and we had high expectation of him to deliver.

Top on our list for Abdul Hamid must surely be to overhaul the tainted image of the police force and to put the fear of God into corrupt officers.

Abdul Hamid must also be aware of these expectations when he accepted his come-back post as deputy IGP in 2018 and subsequently became the 12th Malaysian IGP in May 2019...