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A TRIGGER HAPPY ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE FORCE - Unlawful Police Shootings 1999-2002
 

Memorandum on

"A TRIGGER HAPPY
ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE FORCE
"

1.3 PERSONS SHOT DEAD PER WEEK
BY THE ROYAL MALAYSIAN POLICE FORCE
(635 FROM 1989-1999, THE STAR 11/05/99)
AS OPPOSED TO 18 FATAL POLICE SHOOTING
IN NEW ZEALAND FROM 1940 TO 2001 (61 YEARS)

To the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister / Home Minister

Dato Seri Abdullah Bin Haji Ahmad Badawi

 

Dated 31st October 2002

Police Watch and Human Rights Committee

Parti Reformasi Insan Malaysia (PRIM) (Pro-Team)

Suite 8-10-5 Menara Mutiara Bangsar

Jalan Liku Off Jalan Rioung, Bangsar

59100 Kuala Lumpur

Tel 03 22825622 / 013 3504711

Fax 03 22825616

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. PURPOSE

2. INTRODUCTION

3. LATEST THREE (3) INCIDENTS OF DEATH BY POLICE SHOOTING

4. PRIM'S LETTER OF PROTEST

5. REASONS FOR THE ILLEGAL, UNLAWFUL, RUTHLESS AND BRUTAL KILLING OF A MENTAL PATIENT BY THE POLICE

6. GLARING INCIDENCES OF DEATH BY POLICE SHOOTING (MENTAL PATIENT, EIGHT MONTH PREGNANT LADY AND OTHERS)

7. INSTANCES WHERE ACCUSED ARMED WITH FIREARMS WERE NOT SHOT DEAD

8. LATEST INSTANCES OF ARRESTS WITHOUT SHOOTING

9. REPORTED INSTANCES OF FATAL SHOOTINGS FROM OUR ARCHIVES

10. ALARMING STATISTICS BY DATO' ABDUL KADIR SHEIKH FADZIR (THEN DEPUTY HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER)

11. IMPRESSIVE STATISTICS FROM NEW ZEALAND

12. AUDIT OF POLICE FIRE ARMS, AMMUNITION AND RELATED EQUIPMENT

13. POLICE TRIGGER-HAPPY

14. UNOFFICIAL SHOOT TO KILL POLICY

15. NO ACTION AFTER DEMANDS FOR INDEPENDENT PROBE

16. MALAYSIAN INDIANS - ALARMINGLY THE HIGHEST NUMBER BEING SHOT DEAD BY THE POLICE

17. OPERASI COPPERHEAD (A POLICE OPERATION AGAINST SUPPOSED INDIAN CRIMINALS)

18. LATEST THREE (3) INSTANCES OF POLICE SHOOTINGS

19. THE LEGAL POSITION

20. PRIM ADOPTS THE RECOMMENDATION BY THE BAR COUNCIL DATED 10.03.2001

21. PRIM ADOPTS THE BAR AGM RESOLUTION

22. SAFEGUARDS AND PROPOSALS BY PRIM

23. CALL ON THE CHIEF JUSTICE TAN SRI DZAIDDIN / ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HOLD INQUIRIES INTO SHOOTINGS

24. CONCLUSION

25. CALL ON THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER / HOME MINISTER TO INITIATE A ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

APPENDIX - UNLAWFUL POLICE SHOOTINGS TO DEATH (from 1/1/1999 to 29/10/2002)

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