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Who can protect the rakyat if not the police?   Press Statement by Ronnie Liu Tian Khiew (Petaling Jaya, Thursday): Chen of Shah Alam, Ilango of Petaling Jaya and the Goh family of Cheras have one thing in common: they have gone to the police many times for help when their lives or properties were at stake, but all to no avail. Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai, John Chung (DAP Selangor organising secretary) and I brought their cases to Bukit Aman Police Headquarters this morning, hoping to meet up with the Tatatertib (Discipline) chief personally. He did not show up as promised. We have met up with its PR Officer Supt Jamshah Mustapa instead. Jamshah has promised to look into their cases, and wanted a week to do something positive before getting back to the DAP. Chen, 53, was beaten up badly with an iron rod by a Nepalese in his own house last November. He was beaten because he was trying to stop the man from bringing prostitutes to his home at night. He has lodged a police immediately but nothing is being done for some time. He went to the Klang police station to make police reports a few times, and finally decided to get help from the IPK in Shah Alam. He claims that the police have not made any effort to arrest the Nepalese although he has informed the whereabouts of that chap to the authority. Chen is now live in fear, without any protection from the police. Ilango and 120 others were cheated by a trading company. They have made numerous police reports with Petaling Jaya police station since November last year. He alone has lost more than RM22, 000 and he estimated that no less than 1,200 others were also cheated by the same director. Each of them was made to deposit RM1, 400 as surety with the company to get a job with a monthly wage of RM500 (packing biji sawi at home). He estimated that no less than RM5, 000, 000 was ripped off by the same director. The man is now operating in Nilai and the address was given to the police. Nothing has happened. You can imagine how many more people will be cheated by such scam if no action to be taken by the police. The Goh family has made about twenty police reports with the Cheras police station. Since 1999. They claimed that the lorry and van belonged to the Goh's family were burnt down by a former friend of Goh junior. Even their house was once set on fire by the same man, whose name and handphone number were given to the police from day one. Nothing has happened. The Goh family continues to live in fear. We will update Malaysians about their fate one week from now. If the rakyat cannot get protection from the police in times of trouble, who else they can turn to? (2/10/2003) * Ronnie Liu Tian Khiew, DAP national publicity secretary and Selangor chairman