Pakatan Rakyat today announced the names of its six-member parliamentary task force to push through for the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) in Parliament.

NONE DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang said that the two members from the party are Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasageran and Puchong MP Gobind Deo Singh ( left ).

The others are Padang Serai MP N Surendran and Bukit Katil MP Shamsul Iskandar from PKR, as well as Sepang MP Mohamed Hanipa Maidin and Kota Raja Siti Mariah Mahmud from PAS.

Lim, in a statement today, reiterated his call for 23 BN MPs to join 89 other Pakatan MPs in voting for the establishment of the IPCMC, when Parliament convenes.

The panel, which was announced by the Pakatan leadership council yesterday, is tasked with preparing and later tabling a private member's bill for the IPCMC in Parliament.

"With three deaths in police custody in 11 days, against a backdrop of 221 deaths in custody in the country since 2000, Malaysians are tired of excuses and procrastination, but want immediate action by the cabinet to end the outrageously high rate of deaths in police custody... " Lim said.

He added that the IPCMC had also been recommended by the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) to improve the police force in 2005.

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