SUHAKAM INQUIRY | Selangor Criminal Investigation Department chief Fadzil Ahmat has admitted that the abduction of pastor Raymond Koh was similar in style to a police operation. 

Testifying before the Suhakam public hearing into Koh's disappearance, Fadzil was shown CCTV footage of Koh's abduction and was asked by the Koh family's lawyer Jerald Gomez if the abduction could have been a police operation.

Koh was abducted on Feb 13 in Petaling Jaya. A video recording of the incident depicted him being taken by masked men in broad daylight.

"What I can say is that police operations are very much organised; we have our way of entering, exiting and making arrests," he (photo) said.

"If we were to say that it's similar to what that was shown in the video, we do have the same modus operandi.

"So it's the same, tactically, but I'm not saying it's (the work) of the police. (But) it's a similar pattern of (an) organised operation," said Fadzil who heads the task force looking into Koh's abduction. 

However, Fadzil said such operations were not limited to the police force alone, pointing out the armed forces and other well-organised enforcement agencies possessed similar capabilities.

He admitted that the abductors had to have been trained to carry out the operation.

Asked later whether Koh's abduction could have been carried out by police unit which he did not know of, Fadzil replied in the negative, stating that he would have known if they had done so.

"No, no. We would have known if it was a police operation," he insisted. 

Fadzil also excluded the possibility that the group behind the abduction could be linked to rogue elements within the police force. He explained that any well-trained group not affiliated with the police could have carried out the operation.

Previously, a witness in Koh's abduction had claimed that a police personnel investigating Koh's disappearance had remarked that the latter's abduction was similar to a police operation.

Witness Roeshan Celestine Gomez said the investigating officer from the Kelana Jaya police station had made the remark when the witness' police report on the incident was lodged.

The inquiry is seeking to establish whether the disappearances of Koh, activist Amri Chemat, pastor Joshua Hilmy and his wife Ruth Hilmy are tantamount to enforced disappearances as defined under International Convention for Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances (ICPPED).