The people of Malaysia felt greatly aghast and betrayed by the second extension of IGP Musa Hassan's contract in spite of his atrocious track record in maintaining law and order, selective persecution, corruption, incompetency and below par performance.

To add salt to the wound, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's even had the audacity to claim that this extension was due to Musa's excellent record which is a blatant lie.

I wonder what great ‘service' Musa Hassan has performed for Malaysians to warrant such praise from Muhyiddin. With Musa Hassan as IGP over the last three years, we have seen:

1. Increasing fear of crime

musa hassan bukit gantang by election pc 030409 02 Based on a survey conducted by the Home Ministry in July this year, 97 percent or 9,729 out of 10,060 respondents felt unsafe because of the high crime rate, with only 1 percent or 89 respondents feeling safe and 2 percent or 242 respondents in the "uncertain" category.

This is indicative that under Musa's watch, Malaysians have little sense of peace and safety in our own country.

Muhyiddin should make a survey of all the housing areas in Selangor and will notice that almost all residential areas have been fortified and guarded. Why? Because the police has failed to provide basic security of crime prevention.

2. Increasing violation of human rights

Many Malaysians still remember Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Tan Hoon Cheng and I were arrested under the draconian ISA on Sept 12 last year. The then Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar had on record said that the decision of using ISA arrest against three of us was decided by Musa as the head of the Royal Malaysian Police.

The arrest of three of us by the police made Malaysia a laughing stock of all freedom loving people in the civilized world.

This is once again a classic case of selective persecution to protect the political hegemony of Umno/BN.

dap members arrest at teresa kok candle light vigil 190509 01 On my case, it was proven that the police had detained me under the ISA based on hearsay, concoction, and deceit and without proper investigation. Musa should bear full responsibility over this miscarriage of justice.

If Musa had applied the same zeal, passion, dedication and commitment in wiping out the "mat rempits", snatch thieves, property-related crimes, Malaysia today will be a much safer place to live.

Instead, Musa has over the years, applied overwhelming force to suppress the legitimate human right to assemble and peaceful assembly. Police had used tear gas, chemically laced water cannons, brutal excessive use of force to suppress pro-democracy Malaysians gatherings such as the anti-ISA, Bersih, Hindraf marches and the Perak state assembly peaceful protests.

They carried no weapons, no objects of religious disrespect and yet they were subject to intimidation, arrest and police violence for alleged illegal assembly.

3. Selective law enforcement

In contrast to their zeal to clampdown on peaceful protestors, police officers stood by and watched last Friday as a group of some 50 protesters marched from the state mosque in Shah Alam to the Selangor state secretariat building in protest of the proposed building of a Hindu temple.

The protesters carried with them the bloody head of a beheaded cow and made racist speeches and threatened to spill blood. This is but one example of selective law enforcement by the police causing the public to have little faith in not just their ability, but their will to protect victims and punish offenders.

4. Questionable relationship and conduct with Web Power Sdn Bhd Over the "E-Police Force Solution" and the proposed rental of 31 helicopters

In the year of 2007, Musa proposed to use RM400 millions per year to rent 31 helicopters from Web Power Sdn Bhd for 30 years, whereas the original proposal by Malaysian Royal Police to the then Internal Security Ministry was only to purchase eight helicopters.

Besides, Musa by passed the secretary-general of ministry and sent "letter of intent" and "letter of award" to the then Prime Minister-cum-Minister of Internal Security to purchase "E-Police Force Solution" that proposed by Web Power Sdn Bhd.

YB Lim Kit Siang, some other members of parliament and I, have raised the suspicious relationship between Musa and Web Power Sdn Bhd. However, the minister has not been able to give a satisfactory answer to us, and yet, no action has been taken against Musa too.

With such a dismal track record, Musa should be terminated long ago.

He does not deserve to have his contract renewed for he must bear full responsibility for the police force's failure to perform their duty to rein in crime, protect human rights and enforce the law, as well as his questionable relationship with Web Power Sdn Bhd.

In choosing to renew Musa's contract despite objections from law abiding citizens and civil society, the government has gone against its vow of bringing changes and setting up KPI by the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

This is indeed a travesty of justice and makes a mockery of Najib's 1Malaysia - People First and Performance Now.

TERESA KOK is DAP's member of parliament for Seputeh, state representative of Kinrara and state exco for Selangor .