Is the government blind, incompetent or both, MP asks integrity minister Paul Low
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GEORGE TOWN: Once again the Coroner Court has pinpointed to police negligence as the cause of a custodial death two years ago, prompting Pakatan Rakyat parliamentarian M Kula Segaran to mock the federal government’s pathetic apathy.
Yesterday the Coroner Court decided that police had committed an unlawful omission for their failure to send a detainee C Sugumar to hospital to treat his illness.
Coroner Rozi Bainun held that police were responsible for the death of Sugumar two years ago as he was then under their custody and handcuffed.
Sugumar 39, had been detained by police in a public area in Kajang, Selangor on January 23, 2013.
“Another shocking death which ought not to have happened,” said Kula on Sugumar’s death.
“Is the government blind or incompetent or both in police custodial deaths, Datuk Paul Low?” asked the elected representative, referring to Senator Paul Low Seng Kuan, a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Kula said something was seriously wrong with police training when professionally trained personnel, supposed to be responsible to protect lives, could commit such inhumane behavior.
“A death is not just a statistic. Custodial deaths must not become the rule of the day,” said Kula, the DAP national vice-chairman and Ipoh Barat MP.
The verdict on Sugumar case followed another court ruling on Jan 16 this year in the death of a lorry driver, Chandran Perumal, in custody,
The Coroner’s Court ruled that the death of lorry driver Chandran Perumal in a police lock-up two years ago was due to police negligence.
In June 2013, Paul Low, who is charge of integrity and corruption, assured that the federal government was determined to stop all future tragedies behind bars. “Do not think they are blind to what is out there. It is just that the process of government needs to find a solution to stop this,” he said.
Kula dismissed Low’s assertions. “So what has happened after Paul’s assurance? More custodial deaths!” Kula said, reiterating his call on setting up an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission, as recommended by a royal commission in 2005 headed by former Chief Justice Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah.
The Dzaiddin Report had made 125 recommendations with the independent police complaints and misconduct commission as the core proposal.
Apart from Chandran and Sugumar, other victims of custodial deaths over the years were Suresh Kunasekaran, Samiyati Indrayani Zulkarnain Putra, A Kugan, M Krishnan and K Sivam.
FMT
GEORGE TOWN: Once again the Coroner Court has pinpointed to police negligence as the cause of a custodial death two years ago, prompting Pakatan Rakyat parliamentarian M Kula Segaran to mock the federal government’s pathetic apathy.
Yesterday the Coroner Court decided that police had committed an unlawful omission for their failure to send a detainee C Sugumar to hospital to treat his illness.
Coroner Rozi Bainun held that police were responsible for the death of Sugumar two years ago as he was then under their custody and handcuffed.
Sugumar 39, had been detained by police in a public area in Kajang, Selangor on January 23, 2013.
“Another shocking death which ought not to have happened,” said Kula on Sugumar’s death.
“Is the government blind or incompetent or both in police custodial deaths, Datuk Paul Low?” asked the elected representative, referring to Senator Paul Low Seng Kuan, a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.
Kula said something was seriously wrong with police training when professionally trained personnel, supposed to be responsible to protect lives, could commit such inhumane behavior.
“A death is not just a statistic. Custodial deaths must not become the rule of the day,” said Kula, the DAP national vice-chairman and Ipoh Barat MP.
The verdict on Sugumar case followed another court ruling on Jan 16 this year in the death of a lorry driver, Chandran Perumal, in custody,
The Coroner’s Court ruled that the death of lorry driver Chandran Perumal in a police lock-up two years ago was due to police negligence.
In June 2013, Paul Low, who is charge of integrity and corruption, assured that the federal government was determined to stop all future tragedies behind bars. “Do not think they are blind to what is out there. It is just that the process of government needs to find a solution to stop this,” he said.
Kula dismissed Low’s assertions. “So what has happened after Paul’s assurance? More custodial deaths!” Kula said, reiterating his call on setting up an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission, as recommended by a royal commission in 2005 headed by former Chief Justice Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah.
The Dzaiddin Report had made 125 recommendations with the independent police complaints and misconduct commission as the core proposal.
Apart from Chandran and Sugumar, other victims of custodial deaths over the years were Suresh Kunasekaran, Samiyati Indrayani Zulkarnain Putra, A Kugan, M Krishnan and K Sivam.
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