COMMENT The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) are to be congratulated for complying with international standards.

As reported in Star yesterday, the PDRM's Logistics Department (Weaponry) assistant chief director Syed Mustafa Raja Syed Nordin stated that the tear gas used to disperse participants of the Bersih 3.0 assembly on April 28 was “safe” and “complied with international standards”.

This must come as a great relief to the many who were on the receiving end of that tear gas, who, (unlike a comment once made by former US president Bill Clinton), may not have smoked it but who certainly inhaled the tear gas.