by Khalifah

The Malaysian Police has a direct connection to the secret societies. and the connection may extent all the way to the top. Or at the very least to the ASPs and DSPs, and OCPDs who are in charge of crimes, and who can cancel out crimes that had been committed, including murders.

Perhaps Malaysians would like to know that most crimes committed by Chinese or anybody connected to the Chinese Secret Societies seldom, if ever, get to the courts. This is because all the cases, including murders are cancelled out by the police themselves, after some negotiations with the secret societies whose members were involved in the crimes.

Whereas those petty crimes and serious ones committed by individuals including Chinese and Indians are brought to court. Just take a good look at all the police and court statistics over the past ten years and we can find that most of the criminal cases involve mostly Indians or individual Chinese and Malays who did not have any secret society connection.

There was a murder committed in the premises of a newly-opened pub or bar in Pandan Indah. The murder was committed in full view of many patrons, yet those who had committed the murder went scot free. The police can give hundreds of excuses to avoid forwarding such cases to court.

And there was a murder committed in a coffeeshop in Jinjang or Kuala Lumpur. Six or nine people saw the murder taking place, yet the murderer was let off by the police who said that the culprit ran because he feared for his life, thus, the 'real' murderer was not known or established.

If anybody visits the police station, including Bukit Aman and IPK, one can see strange people making numerous visits. And they can be seen coming again and again. Cars with heavily tinted windows or windscreens can also be seen parked in the compound.

Surely, these could not have been vehicles used by the police officers who are not allowed to flaunt their wealth anywhere, more so in the police station compounds. These may very well be the cars that carry secret societies representatives.

Also, go to the bars and pubs late at night, and one can see very openly, Malay police officers mixing with people from the secret societies. And they drink and get drunk, and on the side collect their money and establish better contact.

Criminal cases in Malaysia seem to be taken casually by the police. Even serious criminal cases can be obliterated and the murderers can go scot free, because any ASP or DSP and more so the OCPDs and other higher ranking officers in any district stations can let off such crimes.

Surely, such a system needs to be overhauled because the loopholes that have been created are simply too huge, and serious criminal cases can be deleted from files.

If the Malaysian police wants to clear any doubt that the rakyat feels about police independence, especially from the secret society connection, they must do something and make the system free from abuse.

As it is, any Malaysian can cast serious doubts on police efficiency.

Ironically, the secret societies can survive because of protection by the Malaysian police. The officers can be bought with money.

And only those who do not have connection to the secret societies will be abused by the police and their cases dragged on in court or in remand.

How is it that illegal bars, pubs, video archades and prostitution centres can be set with such ease, and near the vicnity of the district police stations, including the IPK station in the centre of Kuala Lumpur?

This can be done because those who operate these joints are basically secret society chiefs. They set up those establishment simply to clean their dirty money. And they would set up expensive joints, simply because the can afford it. And where do they get the money to set up those establishments? Can they ever get bank loans to set up a bar, pub, or illegal video outlet for intance?

If the police wants to be serious in combating crime, they should establish who are operating such joints and where they get their investment from. If the police cannot do this, surely they want to close one eye to the problem.

It is really so easy to combat such problems. Surely, the police know how to do it, but they are not interested.

The most effective way to combat illegal bars, pubs and illegal video archades is to shift the onus on the owners of the premises. The police or whoever must introduce legislation or laws that forbid owners from renting out their premises for business other than those that are deemed legal.

And big shopping complexes and malls must also comply with this law; failing which the owners of these multi-million ringgit buildings can be dragged to court. In this way the owners of the buildings simply have to involve lawyers and sign agreements with anybody who wants to rent their premises, and to ensure that the type of business is not illegal. Video piracy can be stemmed this way, because no rich towkay wants to risks being charged in court because he has rented a space to allow the others to sell illegal videos or VCDs.

How come the police and government do not know about this?

Lastly, I doubt it if the police is interested to combat crime, although it is not so difficult to do so. As a layman, I can see how a simple legislation or law can stem it once and for all.

I strongly feel that the Malaysian police has a lot to lose if such secret society activities and illegal business are not allowed to flourish.

And it is to the advantage of the police officers themselves if such businesses are allowed.

Sure, the police will undertake to confiscate the video equipments, but this is just for show. There has never been any pub or bar or illegal video outlet that has ceased to operate simply because their premises were raided.

In fact, such raids are just meant to help the owners remove unwanted and old machines. And few days later, new machines are brought in. This happens all the time. And this explains why new premises are opened almost every other week, right in the precinct of the district police stations.

Also, note that those staff of the secret societies normally collect the day's takings by acting like they are policement, except that they are all Chinese. They drive old Pajeros painted dark blue. And the three or four young Chinese men try to look like policemen. One or two will carry a small sling bag like those used by Special Branch personnel, until the trick was revealed in the Internet sometime ago.

It is high-time that Malaysians wake up and realise that the Malaysian Police is really not interested to combat crime in the country. Is it so difficult to do so? No. They are just not interested, because they have a lot to lose if there is no crime.