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LAST Friday at 8.40am, I was at the Jalan Duta court complex.
At the cafeteria there sat a group of policemen all decked in their uniforms. Next to them a “No Smoking” sign was prominently displayed (”No Smoking” signs are prominently displayed all over the cafeteria, as a matter of fact).
Guess what they were doing? Openly smoking away in a non-smoking area which is an air-conditioned place as well. They were openly flouting the law in the premises that houses some of the highest courts of the country!
If our policemen, who are supposed to be enforcers of the law, do not have the discipline to uphold the law themselves and blatantly disregard it at the Jalan Duta court, how would they ever uphold the law?
How would they enforce the law?
And it looked like no one dared to tell them off, so they behave as if they are above the law.
I.H., Subang Jaya
Source: NST – January 30, 2008
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Wandaboy
January 30th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Typical of Malaysian police. Also u see policemen brek laws on the road. Policemen on motorbikes just ride in and out of lanes sama like Mat Rempit, no signal and cut in and out! in shopping ctres also the peopl go to toilet and smoke smoke. when I see i scold them what..no care for udder people. how to progress?
Peter Yew
January 30th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
It seems to me that new police recruits are taught to nab criminals and law breakers but not to uphold the laws. By violating laws themselves the police end up on the wrong end of our respect. Granted that there are good police personnel, those who daringly go against the laws in broad daylight deserve to be punished or even sacked because they do the very thing they were employed to prevent from happening.