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Monday, 10 May 2010

Aminul shooting report for Cabinet this week

The Star by FLORENCE A. SAMY

PETALING JAYA: An interim report on the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah will be submitted to the Cabinet this week.

The eight-member special panel set up to oversee police investigations into what caused the controversial shooting will meet today to discuss the report before submitting its preliminary findings to the Cabinet meeting this Wednesday.

The panel has interviewed the key persons involved and gone through the witnesses’ statements but has not concluded its investigations.

“This is only an interim report, There are still other issues that we need to look at. It is just a preliminary finding but it is a fair one for both sides,” said a panel member.

Aminulrasyid was shot dead by police after a 6km car chase on April 26 after, as police said, he tried to reverse and ram the vehicle he was driving into policemen in Section 11, Shah Alam.

However, his friend Azamuddin Omar, 15, who was with him in the car, has denied the police claim.

The panel, which is chaired by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop, had also visited several locations in Shah Alam leading to the fatal shooting beginning from the restaurant where the two had eaten on the day in question.

It will also evaluate the Standard Operating Procedure on the discharge of firearms by policemen on duty.

Other panel members are former Inspector-General of Police Tun Mohammed Haniff Omar, Home Ministry deputy secretary-general Datuk Ahmad Fuad Abdul Aziz, law lecturer Assoc Prof Datuk Abdul Halim Sidek, Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute chief executive officer Datuk Dr Michael Yeoh, lawyer Datuk Seri Muhammad Shafee, social scientist Datuk Dr Dennison Jayasooria and crime analyst and actor Kamal Affendi Hashim.

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