I applaud the Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador in his commendable efforts in eradicating drug abuse in the police force which has reached “a critical and serious level”. News that 112 police officers including a police superintendent tested positive for drugs in an operation dubbed Ops Blue Devil conducted in police contingents nationwide since Aug 13 has shocked the nation.
The police chief noted that personnel involved in drug abuse were also suspected of committing extortion and bribery, with foreign workers as their victims. This is a sad state of affair for the country’s enforcement agency.
Abdul Hamid is now duty bound to order a mass re-investigation into the closures or the prosecutions of the criminal cases handled in the past recent years by the 112 drug abused police officers in particular the police superintendent. No one would ever know the number of innocent people who were victimised and wrongfully punished by these rogue men in blue.
The heads of our various enforcement agencies, from the immigration department to the local authorities, should take a leaf out of Abdul Hamid’s brace action in targeting his own people in the police force.
Other enforcement agencies must also conduct more drug eradication inspections with the aims at cleansing Malaysia’s enforcement departments of corruptive elements and improving its integrity.