Teresa Kok

Saladin (http://www.saladin.tv/)

Press Statement By YB Teresa Kok, MP For Seputeh On 26th April 2006 At Kuala Lumpur

Jarmaluddin Jarjis Did Not Give A Satisfactory Reply To My Series of Questions On “Why The Saladin Project Took 6 Years To Produce A 6- Minute Trailer?”

I am not satisfied with the reply given by YB Dato’ Seri Jamaluddin Jarjis, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation on my queries over why it took 6 years for Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) to produce a 6- minute trailer ?

Jamaluddin Jarjis gave me a short reply due to the limitation of time in the Dewan Rakyat, and he said the trailer of Saladin only costs RM400,000 only and not RM20 million as pointed by me (more…)

Bird view of Bukit Tagar landfill site. This is the site where rubbish and waste from Klang Valley being burried by the earth.
A closer look at the Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill from the helicopter
Deputy Minister Sothinathan (3rd from left), YB Dr James Dawos (MP for Mambong, 4th from left) and me were being briefed by personnels from KUB-Berjaya-Environ at the landfill site.
Leachate treatment plant, it is same facility used by Indah Water Consortium
Water from Leachate treatment plant will flow to this “Seed Bed”, the long roots grass will absorb nutrients of the leachate and thus cleanse the water.

Yesterday, I have an interesting trip to Bukit Tagar Sanitary Landfill together with Deputy Minister of Environment and Natural Resources Sothinathan and YB Dr James Dawos (MP for Mambong). We travelled there by helicopter. We were accompanied by the Director General of DOE Datuk Rosnani

It was my first time I travelled with helicopter. We took the helicopter at the Old Airport at Sungai Besi. You know, we always passed by the old airport at Sungai Besi, but we never know how to get there. So, last night, I purposely ask my member to drive me to locate the entrance of the old airport and we found it along the road to the Kwang Tong cemetary (more…)

Former DPM Ghafar dies
Malaysiakini
Apr 23, 06 10:09am

Former deputy prime minister Ghafar Baba, 81, passed away this morning at Kuala Lumpur Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre.

Ghafar, who celebrated his birthday only a few days ago, died at 7.35am. His 81st birthday party held at the hospital on Tuesday was attended by many of his political colleagues, including a number top MCA leaders.

The former Umno politician was widely respected within MCA circles for his help to broker peace in the Chinese-based party when it was riven with factional feuds in the 1980s.

Since then, Ghafar’s birthday had become an annual event for MCA.

Ghafar was rushed to the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre in Petaling Jaya for chest pains and difficulty in breathing last October (more…)

在本期國會開始前，為避免國陣議員在國會會議里一致支持首相成立警方獨立投訴委員會（IPCMC）的建議，警隊高層刻意在國會會議召開前夕，設宴款待國陣后坐議員，以向他們解釋警隊的困境和拒絕政府成立IPCMC的原因。

這游說晚宴看來相當有效，巫統多位議員過后在參與感謝元首御詞辯論時，便刻意的抨擊筆者及行動黨破壞警方形象，同時合理化部分警隊的貪污和濫權的行徑，并呼吁政府勿成立IPCMC，前所未有的公然違背首相的建議。

為了平衡議員們的觀點，國會人權核心委員會數日前邀請了數位「探討與提升警察部隊問題的皇家委員會」的前委員，前來國會與議員們進行午餐對話。這數位前皇家委員當中，也包括前總警長敦哈聶夫奧馬和前著名報人卡迪爾加新。

星期二當天午餐時段，我們本來預算參與對話的議員為40位左右，沒想到竟有70多位議員出席。對話開始時，敦哈聶夫奧馬受邀來個開場白，闡明皇家委員會提出改善警察部隊的125項建議和成立IPCMC的原因，他也指出這是他們考察其他國家，例如：香港、澳洲和英國等的結果。

卡迪爾加新接着敘述數年前當他被委任為該皇家委員會的成員時，他曾三度問首相阿都拉對成立該委員會的立場是否是認真的，他也同時預先警告阿都拉說，如果此舉是認真的，那么這等同于「打開一罐子的蟲」，把警察部隊的黑暗攤開來，而在掀開真相后，身為首相的他肯定會承受非常大的壓力。他說，果然，在該委員會調查報告出爐后，其真相比預期的更糟，而他當年給首相的警告，今天都應驗了。

這兩位德高眾望者誠懇的開場白，依然打動不了一些巫統議員的心。當中幾位言論略極端的議員在對話階段，便毫不客氣的向這幾位前皇家委員「開炮」。一位吉打州的議員站出來說，警察在艷陽高照和狂風暴雨時都為人民服務，遇到死人時還要抬尸體，但是他們所領受的薪金卻是那么微薄，我們怎可對他們那么苛刻？這位仁兄反問敦哈聶夫，他在擔任總警長時又為改革警隊做了什么？另一位則說他并不完全同意皇家委員會全部125項建議，他認為我們不應該丑化我國的警隊和打擊他們的士氣，因為我國警隊名列世界第4。他們也認為為何該委員會只針對警方，而不針對其他也同樣被公眾指責貪污的執法單位，例如交通部、土地局等。

只有一位來自吉蘭丹的巫統議員為皇家委員會說好話，他叫議員們應該相信這些政府所委任的前皇家委員們的能力與特長，并相信他們所提出的報告和建議。

這些前皇家委員會的成員說，他們曾在報告書里建議政府也在其他民事服務里設立類似IPCMC的仲裁庭（ombudsmen），來解決政府部門效率不良的問題，但是由于他們被賦予的使命僅限警方，因此他們只能針對警方的問題作出調查和建議。

敦哈聶夫回敬這些質問他的議員道：「如果警界沒有問題，那么政府不會成立一個特別委員會來調查和探討這些問題。我在警隊服務35年，警隊就好像我的血和肉，我怎么不了解和痛惜我的警員？在我擔任總警長的時候，我特別設立了一個紀律組來處理警隊的紀律問題，但是后來接我位子的人沒延續下去，我也無可奈何。」

這對話會后來因時間關系而結束。很明顯的，這幾位前皇家委員會委員的話并不能改變這些反對成立IPCMC的巫統議員的觀點，而他們也沒細讀和研究該皇家委員會的報告和諸項建議，他們只為捍衛警方的「尊嚴」而繼續反對這監督警方的機制。

就因為他們這種態度，導致IPCMC遲遲不能成立，也破壞了普羅大眾面對濫權警員的保障。這是前皇家委員會的遺憾，也是人民的深切遺憾。

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Lim Kit Siang is seeking appointment with Pak Lah on IPCMC. Below is his statement today:

Media Statement (2) by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP MP for Ipoh
Timur Lim Kit Siang in Parliament on Friday, 21st April 2006:

Seeking appointment with Abdullah on IPCMC —improper pressure by police
and a group of vocal UMNO MPs who do not represent majority of BN MPs
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I have faxed to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who
is also Internal Security Minister, asking for a meeting on the proposed
Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

I am very concerned that the Prime Minister is backing down from his
public commitment to accept this key recommendation of the Royal Police
Commission as a result of improper pressure by the police as well as
vocal support by a group of UMNO MPs who do not represent all or even the
majority of the Barisan Nasional MPs, especially BN MPs from Sabah,
Sarawak as well as other BN component parties, such as MCA, Gerakan and
MIC.

Unfortunately, the Sabah, Sarawak, MCA, Gerakan, MIC MPs, as well as the
more level-headed and rational UMNO MPs, seem to have been overawed and
bullied by the group of vocal MPs into silence, although in their heart
of hearts they know that IPCMC is good for the people, country and the
police themselves.

IPCMC is not a party issue as it concerns the best interests of the people
and country to have a clean, incorruptible, professional, human
rights-sensitive world-class police service. It is not to run down or
humiliate the Police but the contrary, to enhance police image and
credibility to enjoy public confidence as the neighbourhood friends of
the people.

It is not meant to selectively discriminate against the Police, as the
time has come for Malaysia to uphold good governance by introducing a
system of Ombudsman to subject all government departments and enforcement
agencies to external oversight mechanisms. In this sense, an IPCMC will
be like a Police Ombudsman (as it is called in some other countries) but
with “teeth”.

The failure to establish the IPCMC will itself be a most adverse
reflection on the establishment of the Royal Police Commission and the
delivery of Abdullah’s reform pledge and programme.

The Royal Police Commission is a feather-in-the-cap for Abdullah, proof of
his political resolve to “walk the talk” to effect reform. It would be
most unfortunate and tragic if the Royal Police Commission ends up as the
symbol of the failure of his reforms, because of the police success in
hijacking the policy-making powers on the issue by “turning over” the
support the group of vocal UMNO MPs.

– Lim Kit Siang – http://limkitsiang.com – http://blog.limkitsiang.com

Below is an interesting article written by a SUHAKAM commissioner published in NST today, she analysed the challenges faced by SUHAKAM, the need of ombudsmen for civil service as well as IPCMC. Do you agree with her?

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/nst/Thursday/Columns/20060420083835/Article/index_html

What kind of watchdog do we really want?
20 Apr 2006
By: Ranita Hussein
————————————————————————————————————————Debates on creating an ombudsman centre on whether it should be an alternative to the IPCMC and what powers the new body should have. RANITA HUSSEIN offers some pointers.

EVER since the proposal was mooted for the creation of an ombudsman, a debate has raged as to whether the ombudsman should be set up as an alternative body to the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) recommended by the Royal Commission of Enquiry.

A pertinent observation made in the debate was that the ombudsman should have “teeth” and not replicate the efforts of existing bodies. In the wings stands the Human Rights Commission (Suhakam), an existing independent body, bearing the label, “no teeth”. What repercussions would the creation of an ombudsman have on Suhakam and vice versa? Indeed, how relevant is Suhakam to the ombudsman debate?

The IPCMC was a significant response to the reports of police abuse and misuse of power by various individuals and organisations to the Royal Commission. One such report came from Suhakam.

In 2004, out of a total of 1,342 complaints lodged by the public to Suhakam, only 721 cases were classified as relating to human rights. The rest were mainly complaints of inefficiency and inaction by government agencies, including the police.

Of the human rights-related complaints against government agencies, the majority involved the Immigration Department and the police. Complaints against the police ran- ged from allegations of abuse of power to police violence to deaths in custody.

At this point , it is instructive to examine further the criticisms levelled against Suha- kam, if only to discover the defects that should not be repeated when establishing the IPCMC or an ombudsman.

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ASEAN FMs huddle for retreat as Myanmar question still looms

ASEAN foreign ministers are meeting for their annual informal retreat amid increasing unease over recalcitrant member Myanmar’s refusal to produce evidence of democratic reform.

Ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) arriving on the resort island of Bali ahead of the talks, as well as the bloc’s chief, expressed frustration with the military-ruled regime.

“There is a certain impatience because the people around the region as well as around the world say, You keep talking, you keep going there—and then what happened?” secretary-general Ong Keng Yong said.

“People want to see some concrete steps forward.”

The ministers held a working dinner Wednesday during which Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar briefed them over his trip to Yangon, an Indonesian foreign ministry official told AFP.

The official declined however to give details of the Myanmar discussions.

Myanmar agreed at last year’s ASEAN summit to invite Syed Hamid in the face of growing international pressure for evidence of its democratic progress, as well as embarrassment among some members over its 1997 inclusion in the bloc.

Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Ubud, Syed Hamid said he was “not totally happy” with progress in Myanmar.

“There are still more things to be done,” he said. “Our intention was to engage with everybody. So, since we were not able to, in that respect you can see that,” he said, referring to his failure to meet with Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ministers appeared meanwhile to agree that regional powerhouses China and India should use their economic clout—considerably mightier than ASEAN’s—to nudge Myanmar towards reform.

“The Myanmar issue is difficult for ASEAN. We must admit that, but we should not see it as solely the burden of ASEAN. There are also major key players that have significant influence: China and India,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda told reporters.

“They can help by promoting democracy in Myanmar.”

Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo also said last month that China’s and India’s open policy on Myanmar diluted the impact of Western sanctions.

Ministers were due to lunch with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a press briefing was expected at 0530 GMT.

Myanmar’s junta has spelt out a “road map” for democracy, including talks on a new constitution. But Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has boycotted the process, which critics have called a sham.

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Today is the last day for MPs to speak on 9th Malaysian Plan. All MPs were given 10 minutes to speak today and the Parliament sitting is extended to let all MPs to have a chance to air their views. I have been so busy in the past one week doing other things that need to be done, this include preparing for my speech in a Urban Transport Seminar organised by MSRC last week, participating in the Parliament Select Committee meeting to review Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, preparing for my speech on Thai elections organised by Sin Chew Jit Poh on Monday night, and preparing for my emergency motion speech on pollution of Semenyih River yesterday. I only have chance to write my speech for RMK-9 today.

Thank God that I was given a chance to speak at about 4.30pm for ten minutes. After I delivered my speech, the naughty boy MP from Jerai raised his thumb up to me and said it was a good speech. I wonder why he said so as he always disturb opposition MPs when we delivered our speeches. When I passed my speech to the media, they seemed very interested in the story on the animated film Saladin, let’s see whether this will be published in tomorrow’s papers.

I saw a comment in my yesterday posting that I was not well prepared for my emergency motion on polluted water. Fyi, most of our application for emergency motion is rejected by the Speaker (after he consulted the minister concerned), so it is no point to prepare our speech before the Speaker approves it. That’s why when the Speaker approved my emergency motion to be opened for debate yesterday, it was a surprise to me, like lottery striking, that’s why I have to seek help from journalists to get pointers to write my speech, and I have to entertain those Royal Commissioners on Police whom I have invited to dialogue with the MPs during lunch time. That’s why I have limited time to work on my speech. )

OK, below is my speech today:

Ucapan YB Teresa Kok, Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Dalam Perbahasan Rancangan Malaysia Ke-9 Pada 19 April 2006

Peruntukan Pengangkutan Bandar Tidak Ditunjukkan Dalam RMK-9

Isu pertama yang saya ingin bangkitkan dalam perbahasan saya ialah tentang pengangkutan bandar. Selepas kerajaan menaikkan harga petrol sebanyak 30 sen seliter, kita diberitahu bahawa kerajaan akan menggunakan RM4.4 billion yang dijimatkan setiap tahun ini untuk memajukan pengangkutan bandar. Ini bermaksud kerajaan akan menggunakan RM22 billion dalam 5 tahun yang akan datang untuk memajukan pengangkutan bandar. Malangnya, peruntukan ini langsung tidak muncul dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ke-9. Dalam mukasurat 412 dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ke-9, Jadual 18-8 menunjukkan kerajaan hanya memperuntukkan RM1,565.5 juta ataupun lebih kurang RM1.5 billion bagi pengangkutan bandar, dan bukannya RM22 billion sebagaimana yang dijanjikan oleh kerajaan.

Sekiranya kita baca perenggan di bawah tajuk Pengangkutan Bandar dalam mukasurat 404, kita akan mendapati bahawa selain daripada rancangan memanjangkan LRT di kawasan Bandar, peruntukan tersebut juga akan digunakan untuk membina beberapa jalan di Bandar utama, ini termasuk di Georgetown, Seremban dan Johor Bahru. Sekiranya RM1.5 billion ini digunakan untuk membina begitu banyak projek termasuk membina jalan raya, kita tahu ianya tentu tidak mencukupi, dan kata-kata Timbalan Perdana Menteri untuk memajukan pengangkutan bandar ini pun tentu akan gagal.

Dalam perenggan 18.31 dalam mukasurat yang sama, kita lihat objektif yang ingin dicapai oleh kerajaan dari segi peningkatan penggunaan pengangkutan awam berbanding dengan kenderaan persendirian adalah nisbah 30:70. Sebenarnya matlamat ini adalah agak rendah sekiranya kita berbanding dengan negara-negara maju di mana nisbah di antara penggunaan pengangkutan awam dan kenderaan persendirian ialah 50:50, dan nisbah 50: 50 sepatutnya dijadikan sasaran bagi Malaysia, khususnya di Lembah Klang sekiranya kerajaan berikhtiar untuk mengurangkan penggunaan petroleum dan mengurangkan kesesakan lalu-lintas di kawasan bandar.
Perenggan 18.32 dalam RMK-9 berbunyi: “Satu suruhanjaya akan ditubuhkan bagi mengawal selia sistem pengangkutan awam di Lembah Klang. Suruhanjaya ini juga akan bertanggungjawab ke atas perancangan, penyelarasan dan pelesenan semua mod pengangkutan awam di Lembah Klang.” Soalan saya ialah: saya telah baca tentang cadangan untuk menubuhkan “Urban Transport Authority” yang mempunyai fungsi yang disebutkan di atas dalam kenyataan Menteri Pengangkutan dalam dua tahun yang lepas, tetapi nampaknya suruhanjaya ini belum ditubuhkan dan kerajaan tidak mengambil apa-apa langkah untuk menyelaras dan menangani masalah pengangkutan awam sehingga ia disebutkan sekali lagi dalam RMK-9. Saya ingin tanya apakah tarikh tamat ataupun “deadline” bagi penubuhan suruhanjaya ini supaya masalah pengangkutan awam di Lembah Klang boleh ditangani dengan secepat mungkin.

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On Sunday the press carried a report on water cut on 15th April that affected 2 million people. I was asked by Ronnie Liu to move an emergency motion on this issue, so that I can take the opportunity to raise the problem of the proposed incinerator in Semenyih.

I followed his advice and I submitted an emergency motion under 18(1) of Standing Order to the speaker yesterday. I was very surprised that the speaker approved my application and let my motion to be debated today at 4.30pm. I thought this motion will only be allowed to be read out but it will be rejected for debate under the excuse of “it doesn’t need to speed up”. So, I was caught by surprise and have to start doing reading and sought help from journalists in Parliament for pointers and materials for my speech. Thank God that the journalists have been very kind to me by forwarding some related reports for me.

I only started to work on my speech at 3pm as I was busy attending the dialogue with ex-Royal Commissioners of Police whom the human rights caucus invited to meet with MPs during lunch time. I managed finish writing my two pages speech and rushed to the Dewan Rakyat at 4.27pm, and started to deliver my speech at 4.30pm.

My speech is as follow:

Ucapan YB Teresa Kok Dalam Perbahasan Usul Tergempar Mengenai Pencemaran Sungai Semenyih Oleh Ammonia Yang Melibatkan 2 Juta Penduduk Di Kawasan Lembah Klang Pada 18 April 2006

Terlebih dahulu saya ingin berterima kasih kepada Speaker Dewan Rakyat kerana memberi kebenaran bagi usul tergempar yang berkenaan dengan pencemaran air busuk ammonia di Sungai Semenyih yang telah menyebabkan loji rawatan air di Semenyih terpaksa ditutup lebih daripada 12 jam pada 15 April dibuka untuk dibahas, kerana lebih kurang 2 juta penduduk di 239 kawasan telah menghadapi masalah pemotongan air, ini termasuk penduduk di Semenyih, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, Bangi, Salak Tinggi, Tampoi, USJ, Pulau Meranti, Seri Kembangan, Petaling, Sepang dan KLIA.

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Press statement by YB Teresa Kok, MP for Seputeh at Kuala Lumpur on 12th April 2006

Is Michael Chong’s Motive to Defend the Corruption and Abuses in Police Lock-up and Add Salt to Wounds of Madam Ching Pik Wai?

I regret very much with Michael Chong’s coming out to discredit Madam Ching Pik Wai’s testimony on her humiliating experience in the Dang Wangi Police Lock-up on March 11, 2006 again and again. The similarity in both press conferences is that Michael Chong has twisted and turned the facts and misled journalists and members of public, thus blurring the crux of the issue that was brought up by Madam Ching.

On his press conference dated April 7, he said Madam Ching has never mentioned of pulling ears in the police lock-up to him when she first came to see him but she said it in the press conference with me, so he was doubtful of her statement, as such he claimed that they are inconsistent. The point is, Madam Ching has never mentioned to him that she has been asked by the police to do “ear pulling”. She has clearly stated in her police report that Sergeant Samsiah had asked Madam Ching to give her ATM card as well as the PIN number, if not Madam Ting will be asked to do ear-squat. The photograph shown by Michael Chong in his press conference was the photo published in Guang Ming Daily on April 2nd. That was the posture requested by the photographers during the press conference with me on April 1. This shows that Michael Chong has intentionally or unintentionally misled the press and the public.

After Madam Ching and I have rebutted him in our press conference on April 9 where Madam Ching demanded him to apologise to her for making false accusations against her, Michael Chong again called press conference on April 10 where he showed CCTV recordings to prove that he has attended to Madam Ching and her husband for 8 minutes. The CCTV recording actually doesn’t mean anything because Madam Ching and her husband had admitted from the beginning that both of them have met with Michael Chong and his assistant Novena Ting on March 16, but Madam Ching did not communicate with Michael Chong as she cannot converse in English, but she just told the problem she faced at SOGO supermarket to Novena Ting in Chinese, and her husband Walter Lim was the one that spoke to Michael Chong and requested MCA’s legal assistance to her case in SOGO.

Michael Chong then cited the interview of Mustafa, the CPO of Kuala Lumpur that was published in Nanyang Siang Pao on April 4 that Madam Ching has written a letter to the police to ask for forgiveness from the police. The actual interview in Nanyang Siang Pao dated April 4 is, Mustafa said Madam Ching has written a letter to plead guilty to SOGO after she was arrested, then only the police recommended to DPP to drop charges against her. The issue now is Madam Ching denied she has written letter to SOGO, as she doesn’t understand English and Malay language, it is impossible for her to write a letter to SOGO to plead guilty. She said she was asked by Sergeant Tohmeng to sign on a form on March 28th to settle the misunderstanding with SOGO, but she was not given a copy of the form that she signed. Again we see that Michael Chong made his accusation without checking facts with Madam Ching but just based on a media article, which did not quote her reaction at all.

Michael Chong Used Tactics to Diverting Attention

I am very disappointed with Michael Chong for his series of baseless and untrue criticism against Madam Ching who has gone through so much agony with the police. In the first press conference, Michael Chong twisted and turned the fact based on the “ear pulling” photo posed by Madam Ching. How can Michael Chong doubt her story in open just because she did not reveal the maltreatment and humiliation that she experienced in the police lock-up to him when she and her husband first met him on March 11? Is he jealous that Madam Ching kept the most shocking part of her painful experience to me and not to him that he has missed the opportunity for media publicity, or has he been used by certain quarters to divert the attention and sympathy of the public to Madam Ching’s account in the police lock-up? (more…)

Rebuttal to Unjustified Accusations Made by Michael Chong in His Series of Press Conferences Against Madam Ching Pik Wai (Based On Malay Mail News Reports)

Michael Chong’s Accusation Against Madam Ching Pik Wai on April 8, 2006

i) Michael Chong said Madam Ching told him was forced to pirouette in the nude for two policewomen and had her money stolen while in remand for shoplifting.

ii) Michael Chong said Madam Ching never mentioned about the story of ear-pulling at police lock-up to him when she first met him, so he was sceptical of the woman’s claim.

Madam Ching’s Response during the press conference on April 9, 2006 (Sunday),

a) She has never spoken to Michael Chong personally as she cannot converse in English and Malay. It was her husband Walter Lim who spoke to Michael Chong briefly. She just explained what happened at SOGO to Michael Chong’s assistant Novena Ting in Mandarin.

b) Walter Lim said he has spoken to Michael Chong briefly by asking him whether the MCA lawyer can help them to resolve their misunderstanding with SOGO supermarket.

c) Walter Lim and Mdm Ching never mentioned to Michael Chong about the maltreatment faced by Mdm Ching at police lock-up because the main worry at that time was the problem in SOGO, and not the humiliation at the police lock-up.

d) Madam Ching never said she was asked by the police to do “ear-pulling”. She just said in her police report that she was threatened by Sergeant Samsiah at the police lock-up that she will be asked to do “ear-squats” if she refused to give her ATM card and PIN number. She was asked to pose by the photographers to pull her ears during the press conference dated 1st April 06 and this photo published in Guang Ming Daily. Michael Chong used this photo to accused Mdm Ching wrongly.

Michael Chong’s Accusation Against Madam Ching Pik Wai In His 2nd Press Conference on April 11, 2006

i) Michael Chong showed the CCTV recordings to the media to prove Madam Ching and her husband have met with him and spoken to him.

ii) Michael Chong has listened to Madam Ching’s claim ¨C that she was asked to pirouette in the nude for two policewomen and had her money stolen.

iii) Michael Chong has spent 8 minutes with them.

iv) Michael Chong quoted an interview in Nanyang Siang Pao dated April 4 that Madam Ching has written a letter saying that she was guilty and asked for forgiveness from the police.

Madam Ching Pik Wai’s Response On April 12, 2006

a) Madam Ching has never denied she and her husband have met with Michael Chong on March 16, she has not spoken to him personally but she told the story in SOGO to Michael Chong’s assistant. Michael Chong then came for a while and her husband spoken to him in both Mandarin and English. Her husband had requested legal assistance from Michael Chong on her problem with SOGO.

b) She has never told the humiliation experience at the police lock-up to Michael Chong.

c) She has never written any letter to the police to ask for forgiveness from the police. On 28th March, she was asked by Sergeant Tohmeng to sign on a form at SOGO to settle the misunderstanding.

(Correction: CPO of Kuala Lumpur Mustafa in his interview in Nanyang Siang Pao dated April 4 said Madam Ching has written letter to SOGO to ask the company to release her, so that she can turn a new leave. Madam Ching claimed that she has never written such letter to SOGO, but she was only asked by Sergeant Tohmeng to fill up a form at SOGO on 28th March 2006)

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Dear friends,

Please support the petition to establish Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) & movement towards a better police force.

http://www.petitiononline.com/betterpf/
To: The Malaysian Government
I/We the undersigned:

1. Commend and support the Prime Minister for having, in the past two years, set up two Commissions of Inquiry to look into matters concerning the Police; illustrating the Government’s concern for a better society, greater openness to views and criticisms, and the willingness to have a more open and honest appraisal of our institutions.

2. Urge that the above trend be continued, and the pace of reform be hastened.

3. Commend the chairman and the commissioners of these 2 Commissions for the sound and useful recommendations that they have put forward.

4. Believe that the recommendations of the Police Commission are comprehensive and balanced; as they do not merely focus on the conduct of the police, but also address problems faced by the police force, their terms of service, as well as issues such as human rights, crime, and corruption.

5. Believe that full regard must be had to the recommendations of the 2 Commissions, set up in the public interest and using public funds, which recommendations have been made after extensive fact-finding and research, and which recommendations will ensure best practices by the police force.

6. Believe that it is imperative that our nation immediately implements all the major recommendations of the 2 Commissions, including, in particular, the setting up of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

Yesterday, Sunday morning, I was forced to battle with jag-let and attended the press conference with Madam Ching Pik Wai whose statement has been questioned by Michael Chong in the morning.

Madam Cheng was very emotional when she met with the journalists. She took the newspaper with the photograph of the press conference of Michael Chong and accusing him with the repeated remark as “false witness” and the photographers kept taking photos on both she and me. (more…)

Dear friends,

I came back from Istanbul this afternoon (Saturday). I got a shock to read the newspaper cutting of the press conference of Michael Chong given by my parents during dinner. His accusation against Madam Cheng is totally baseless as Cheng never said she has been asked by the police to do nude ear squat or “ear pulling”. Cheng just said that the policewoman Samsiah has threatened her that if she refused to give her money, she will be asked to do ear-squat. This was clearly stated in the police report.

I then quickly inform the press that I wanted to do a press conference tomorrow morning, I have to re-arrange my appointment with God in church tomorrow so that I can help to clear the name of Madam Cheng.

teresa

Malay Mail
http://www.mmail.com.my/Current_News/MM/Saturday/National/20060408112639/Article/index_html
Chong doubts granny’s tale
DAWN CHAN
April 8:
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KUALA LUMPUR: A 60-year-old told MCA Public Services and Complaint Department head Datuk Michael Chong that she was forced to “pirouette” in the nude for two policewomen and had her money stolen while in remand for shoplifting.

At a recent Press conference by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, the woman claimed that she was also forced to pull her ears. Chong is now sceptical of the woman’s claims.

“She came to see me first but made no mention of pulling ears. I am shocked by her latest allegations.

“I am doubtful of her statements. It is inconsistent.”

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