COMMENT | The reputation of two premier enforcement agencies – the police and the MACC – lies in tatters, battered and under siege.

Loud voices from lawyers, civil society groups, and ordinary citizens have been met not with accountability but with denials, deflections, and silence.

The police, already stained by past controversies, now face fresh accusations of extra-judicial killing in Durian Tunggal, Malacca.

Three men were shot dead, and the official narrative of “self-defence” has been directly challenged by an audio recording submitted by the wife of one of the victims. Yet beyond this, silence reigns.

But the audio, which was recorded by the wife of one of the victims, is critical evidence that captures the final moments before the men were shot dead on Nov 24.

Into this void steps Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim...