YOURSAY ‘The amended PCA should be visited on these ‘clowns'... They are more dangerous to themselves and the tax-paying public than gangsters.'

Police lose weapons, Customs men lose shoes

YUNoAnon: So how will you deal with this? Isn't losing weapons and handcuffs a crime, even in the police force? And how can you lose your vehicles?

Which vehicles were lost - motorbikes, police cars, vans, trucks? Then again, this is not surprising given that we've had jet engines taken out of the country before.

Now, who is to be held accountable for these missing items? Or is it going to go under the carpet as per your standard operating procedures (SOP)? What jokers. I pay my taxes to equip you guys, only for you to conveniently lose these things.

And why does it take you so long to draw up a SOP? No wonder cases take forever to be solved. If drawing a SOP takes months, implementing them will take years. Indeed, someday your own police stations will go missing under your watch.

Abasir: Police lose weapons, cars and handcuffs. Customs men lose shoes, Immigration Department loses records, the Treasury loses money, the universities lose their rankings, sportsmen lose their matches, Utusan Malaysia, The Star and New Straits Times (NST) lose their readers and Malaysians lose their patience with the imbeciles from Umno.

Failed state 2020, here we come.

Perhaps what we need is a new Police Protection Team to safeguard our helpless police, their hardware, cars and weapons while they are busy chasing after the opposition, harassing lawmakers, threatening the online media and looking for the ashes of dead men at all entry points.

I am sure an outsourced partner can be contracted. There are thousands of unemployable 'graduates' spilling out. Give each one a uniform and a truncheon and put them to task. But just make sure you have another special team to watch over the watchers.

SS Dhaliwal: It would be good to know where the cars, bikes and weapons were lost. Was it from the police stations or outside? I doubt if any thief has the audacity to steal a police vehicle.

MockingYou: Other than the loss of firearms, this is absolutely ludicrously hilariously funny! The amended Prevention of Crime Act (PCA) should be visited on these ‘clowns' and the maximum two-year detention without trial be used on them to facilitate ‘investigations'.

The police are more dangerous to themselves and the tax-paying public than the gangsters. What say you, inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar and Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi?

SAJ: The only honourable thing to do is for IGP and Customs Department director-general to resign.

Since we can't reasonably expect that to happen knowing the culture of accountability, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) must take punitive action in accordance with the Financial Procedure Act and charge these "honourable men".

Sa Tombs: Now Ahmad Zahid will issue a clarification and say that these items were not lost but simply misplaced. Or, he would say that Indian gangsters stole them. When they can't retrieve their own stolen items, do you expect them to find yours?

Anonymous #60887313: When the crime rate shot up, they said that is because our laws were too lax, and then went on to amend and tighten the law and increase their power. Now weapons and handcuffs have gone missing, are they going to see their own fault or shift the blame again?

Sanak Sanglang: Are there any police reports made by the person or persons who lost the items at the time they were lost. The auditor-general should confirm this matter before we haul up the IGP for a thorough explanation.

We want to know whether there were any police investigations done to recover the missing items. Anybody in possession of these items can create havoc, especially with the weapons, handcuffs, walkie-talkie and police vehicles.

Lim Chong Leong: Customs buying shoes that don't fit. How silly and wasteful. Year in year out we see this kind of foolish wasteful plundering and nothing ever gets done to haul those responsible to account.

This is PM Najib Razak's transformation programme - from bad to worse.

Stevie W: What a joke! There are 7,659 pairs of shoes and the sizes don't match the Customs officers. So these shoes all came with the individual officers' photographs and names printed on them and therefore cannot be swapped around? I do not see the logic. Can anyone?

Peacemaker: If they don't like the shoes they ordered, the Customs personnel can go barefooted. We have had enough of taxpayers' money poured being down the drain through corruption and incompetence.

Najebon: This is common. Nobody will be punished. Well, the rakyat deserve what they get as they keep on voting these people into government. Pay the price and remain poor.

Boiling Mud: ‘Police lose weapons, Customs men lose shoes'. I love the Malaysiakini headline. Are we talking about the ‘Three Stooges'?

MrM: Guns are second highest number of assets "lost" by the police? Guess we now know how all the criminals got their guns. Maybe the PCA should be used against the police instead?

BH Yap: Is this one of the reasons why there are so many weapons available these days?

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