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Ipoh leads the country in being the first to publicly respond to the Police Royal Commission Report to kick off a nation-wide campaign to demand full and immediate implementation of its 125 recommendations to create a world-class police service with zero tolerance for corruption to ensure low crime rate and respect human rights
 

Speech at a Public Dialogue
by Lim Kit Siang

(Gloria Hotel, Ipoh, Wednesday): Although this public dialogue has been convened by the DAP MP for Ipoh Barat, M. Kula Segaran at very short notice, it has received very good response from tonight’s turn-out, but what is more important is that it has created  double history, viz:

  • The first public meeting and discussion on the 600-page Police Royal Commission Report since it was released to the public in Kuala Lumpur less than 60 hours earlier  on Monday morning; and
     
  • Ipoh leads the country in being the first to publicly respond to the Police Royal Commission Report to kick off a nation-wide campaign to demand full and immediate implementation of its 125 recommendations to create a world-class police service with zero tolerance for corruption to ensure low crime rate and respect human rights.

I am very  impressed and encouraged by the public-spiritedness of the people of Ipoh from the unanimous show-of-hands just now to support the proposal to launch a new national campaign and movement by establishing a new NGO, IMPLEMENT Police Royal Commission Report (IPRCR), with the five-point objectives:

  • Create a world-class 21st-century police force with zero tolerance for corruption to keep crime rate low and respect human rights.
     
  • Full and immediate implementation of the 125 recommendations of the Police Royal Commission in accordance with the time schedule laid down in its Report;
     
  • Establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC);
     
  • Intensive debate by Parliament and the civil society on the 600-page Police Royal Commission Report and its 125 recommendations.
     
  • Establish a Parliamentary Select Committee on Police to exercise oversight and ensure accountability of  the 100,000-strong Royal Malaysian Police Force, the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission and the implementation of the 125 recommendatio s of the Police Royal Commission.

Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation, should unite to  support this new national campaign and NGO, IMPLEMENT Police Royal Commission Report (IPRCR), for the betterment of our country and to give our children and children’s children the foundation for a safe environment to enjoy a high quality of life.

This initiative in Ipoh tonight, to launch a new national campaign and NGO, IPRCR, should  be taken up by Malaysians up and down the country, for only the people, through the civil society and Parliament, can ensure that the Police Royal Commission Report and its 125 recommendations to keep the crime rate low, eradicate corruption and respect human rights especially women and children, are given serious attention through full, immediate and unhindered implementation.

Let Malaysians from all walks of life and from all parts of the country unite with one voice, calling on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to fully implement the 125 recommendations in accordance with the time-plan of the  Police Royal Commission Report, which will see  80 per cent or 99 of the 125 recommendations  implemented within 12 months by May 2006, viz:

Implementation   by  June 2005      –               5

                          by  August 2005  –              21

                          by  December 2005 -          22

                          by  January 2006 -               14

                          by  May 2006   -                  37         

                                  Total                            99

 

(18/05/2005)      

                                                          

*  Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader, MP for Ipoh Timur & DAP Central Policy and Strategic Planning Commission Chairman