So Much Info to Digest on the Chinese Girl MMS Incident

My computer was sick for the past 3 days and I have had to restart the system.

Quite a few comments were made by various people and the most surprising was from the DPM who mentioned that people were not stripped in police stations.

Then the Deputy Minister goes on air to brush aside the incident and takes the track that the real culprit was the photographer and not the person who ordered the ear squats.

I think the PM has done the correct thing by ordering an independent probe.

The important work of this probe should include:

1.Was the policewoman acting under instructions?
2.Is this standard "strip" and squat procedure?
3.Who authorised such a procedure?
4.Who took that MMS?
5.Check all officers in the station and type of hand-phones owned at the time?
6.Find that victim if she is still in Malaysia and ask her if she had been threatened with other punishement if she did not do the ear squats.
7.Check out a few other lock-ups in the country for similar abuse.
8.Get testimony from ex-detainees on possible abuse cases in the past.

Malaysia's recent past had a case of the IGP assaulting a DPM and the fear is that given the light sentence he received at the time, the PDRM may have very little respect for human rights and decency.

While the independent probe is good, the government should have set up the complaints mechanism for the public as recommended by the recent Royal Commission on the Police.