Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) chairperson Yaacob Md Sam’s proposal (NST, Jan 17, 2017) to measure the integrity of government civil servants through polygraph tests, particularly the enforcement agencies, should seriously take into account emerging new issues and the deception detection model or the prototype of the polygraph prior to making policy decisions about the use of this unsettled machine.

I refer to the article on the Transparency International Malaysia proposal for polygraph tests to address abuse among civil servants. As the author of the book ‘55 Reasons Why Sharifah Aini Was Not Lying’ written in 2004, I am obligated to give my views, just in case the Public Services Commission decides to spend a huge amount of the taxpayers’ ringgit without looking into the pros and cons of the polygraph machine.