Follow Squatgate Commission’s recommendation
Tuesday, 17-01-2006Press Statement by YB Teresa Kok, MP for Seputeh and DAP Publicity Secretary on 17th January 2006 at Kuala Lumpur
I welcome the statement made by the Royal Commission head, Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah, that the Commission has recommended that nude squats be done away with and the Standard Operating Procedure of the PDRM be amended through legislation.
In the UK and many other countries that respect human rights where body searches are routinely conducted as a matter of course, they are carried out in strict adherence to procedures that are already entrenched and incorporated in the respective statutory legislations, and example being the Police & Criminal Evidence Act in the UK. (more…)