SUHAKAM INQUIRY | Former inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar conceded that there could have been lapses with regard to the initial investigations into Pastor Raymond Koh's abduction.

“Yes,” he replied when lawyer Gurdial Singh, who is acting for Koh's family, made the suggestion during Suhakam's public inquiry into the disappearance of the pastor and other activists.

The lawyer had earlier referred to testimonies heard so far, which appeared to suggest there were several "delays" in the investigations.

Among others, Gurdial cited testimonies related to three CCTV footages obtained by Koh's children and later handed over to the police for their investigations.

"Ordinary citizens are doing work which the police could have done. The police never produced any video, these people produced three videos.

"This is not acceptable conduct by the investigating officer...," Gurdial suggested, to which Khalid agreed.

He also agreed to Gurdial's suggestion that the time taken by the police to record the first statement of the case from the first witness was too long and, therefore, not efficient.

"Yes (valuable time was lost),” said Khalid.

The former police chief is the fifth witness to testify at the public hearing chaired by Suhakam commissioner Mah Weng Kwai together with fellow commissioners Aishah Bidin and Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh on the panel.

Earlier, Koh's eldest son Jonathan, in his supplementary witness statement said he had obtained a CCTV footage from a house at Jalan SS4B/12 - a road along the way to Harapan Komuniti's office in Kelana Jaya - on Feb 15, two days after his father's abduction.

His sister Esther and her friend, meanwhile, had obtained two CCTV footages from another house along Jalan SS4C/12, all three of which were handed over to the police.

Koh, 62, was abducted from his car by a group of men along Jalan SS4B/10 in Petaling Jaya about 11am on Feb 13, while he was on his way to a friend's house.

His silver-coloured Honda Accord bearing the number plate ST 5515 D has not been found.

The Suhakam inquiry was investigating whether the disappearance of Koh, activist Amri Chemat, pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth Hilmy were cases of enforced disappearances as defined by the International Convention for Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED).

The convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2006, but Malaysia is not a party to the convention.

It defines enforced disappearances as the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the state or by persons, or groups of persons, acting with the authorisation, support or acquiescence of the state.