Brickfields OCPD Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid made an announcement a day after the reported scuffle between a minister’s son and his accomplices with a 50-year-old security supervisor.

This was reported by The Star on March 24, quoting Bari as saying that the incident was “a small fight between the bodyguard and the security guard.” In the same press conference, the police chief was fast in clearing the name of Mohamad Nedim, son of Minister in the Prime Minister’s department Nazri Abdul Aziz, claiming again that the incident “was a minor case.”

According to Wan Abdul Bari again, the police had completed investigation under Section 160 of the Penal Code, and in his own words, saying, “I do not know why and how another person (Mohamad Nedim) was dragged into this. It is a clear-cut case involving a bodyguard and a security guard.''

The fact is that, if the CCTV footage (now in the hands of the police) proved otherwise that Nedim was in fact involved in the thuggish act of intimidation, neither Nedim nor Bari should be allowed to go scot free.

Both Nedim and Bari should be prosecuted with being in cahoots with each other to hide the truth from the public. As a senior police officer, Bari’s action is simply unprofessional and disgusting, not befitting of a man of his rank.

In fact, the police should also re-open the case involving the death of a young man, Darren Kang, in 2004, in which Nedim was also implicated.

The best thing that the police can do to redeem their already tainted reputation is to sack Bari, or at the very least, he should be immediately suspended from his current position, and if found guilty, be demoted. There are no two ways about it.