Sunday, July 1, 2007

RPK's Disturbing Report Turn Reality?

I'm astounded at how slow PDRM and the Government got the news on the report written by Raja Petra Kamaruddin about the conspiracy between the IGP and some crime syndicate kingpin, "Tengku" (Tengku what? Tengku-Rap? Tengku-Til? I'm surprised that a Chinese would call himself "Tengku"...). That report was written like, what, a year ago? Oh, I forgot. Government servants lack the IT-knowledge. And of course they lack the knowledge, since the Government is more keen on wasting taxpayers money rather than training its servants (I was about to use the word SLAVE, but I can't find a justification. Heh.) to be competent. The response from the IGP was kinda expected. But hey, that's where the fun starts, right? No villain would easily claim to be evil, and up to no good. That sounds like I'm saying the IGP DO have alliances with crime lords, doesn't it? well, consider this:

Top anti-vice cops moved out

JOHOR BARU: More than two dozen policemen and officers from Johor and Klang Valley have been transferred in a massive shake-up within the last two weeks.

Most of the transfers involved personnel from the anti-vice, gaming and secret society unit (D7), serious crimes and even interrogation units.

The bulk of the transfers involved Johor. Almost the entire D7 unit based at the state police headquarters were moved out.

Even the unit’s commanding officer and five inspectors were transferred. The latest transfer list, which came out earlier last week, contained 20 names with 13 of them from the D7 unit.

This is not the first time the state D7 unit has been “wiped clean” as two years ago, a similar exercise was carried out.

However, in the latest reshuffle in Johor, it is not immediately clear whether the officers were transferred for not carrying out their duties or by powerful syndicates who felt hindered by these officers.

Sources said that one of the kingpins in the state is a self-proclaimed Tengku involved in gambling and prostitution.

They said the local police had been unable to shut down his operations as he was well connected and protected.

“His syndicate has also warned policemen that they will be removed if they tried to interfere in his operations,” sources said.

Sources said that Bukit Aman tried to shut down his operations during a major operation against his gambling network in March when they raided two houses in Taman Sentosa and Taman Puteri in Kulai.

“In the simultaneous raids, special teams from police headquarters arrested 17 people and recovered more than two dozen fax machines taking in bets amounting to millions of ringgit,” the source said, adding that despite this, the “Tengku” is back in business.

Last week, Inspector-General of police Tan Sri Musa Hassan during a one-day working visit to Johor said that police had identified seven gang leaders who had been terrorising the state with the help of influential people.

Asked whether officers carrying out their duties might fear reprisal or transfers because of these influential people, Musa replied: “My men need not worry about getting transferred if they are doing a good job. Just do not victimise anyone.”

Who was he referring to when he mentioned, "Just do not victimize anyone"? Don't victimize the civilians, or don't victimize the kingpins?

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