The Home Ministry’s special panel monitoring investigations into the police shooting of Aminulrasyid Amzah wants investigators to resolve inconsistencies in witness statements so far.

NONE "We know there are two (versions of the incident) so this is the aspect which police need to (look further into)," said panel chairperson and deputy home minister Abu Seman Yusop said today.

He was speaking to reporters after chairing the panel’s meeting in Putrajaya today.

Immediately after the shooting, Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters Aminulrasyid, 14, was shot when he tried to reverse the car he was driving.

This account however was disputed by key witness Azamuddin Omar, who was the passenger in Aminulrasyid’s car.

Abu Seman added that the panel was otherwise satisfied that there were "no cover ups" in the police probe thus far. 

Recommendations

He said that the panel have recommended to the government that improvements be made to the rule of engagement and training for new police personnel.

This was among recommendations in the 50-page preliminary report to the government submitted last Monday.

To a question, he said that the panel have yet to decide on whether to recommend that the Inspector-General’s Standing Orders, which covers rules for the discharge of firearms, be made public.

azlan This was among the speculated recommendations in a frontpage report by New Straits Times two weeks ago.

It was also speculated in the report that the panel would recommend that the police apologise to the deceased’s family, which Abu Seman also refused to confirm.

“You have to ask the newspaper that,” he said.

 

One of the police officers who pursued Aminulrasyid, Jenain Subi, 42, was last Monday charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Following this, the family have demanded an apology from the police to clear the deceased’s name, but both Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar and IGP Musa Hassan has yet to do so.

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