With regards to the letter Don't crucify RM34 million cop , the point is that the policeman in question is, or was, a public servant. He is wealthy and how he made this money is the main question.

A very serious question that I think should be asked by the authorities and the real source of that income be determined. If it can be tracked to investments in successful companies via the stock market or other legitimate investments, then congratulations should be extended to this intelligent individual who was a public servant.

However, if he cannot explain the source, then more serious and severe questions must be asked or else we shirk our duties as a citizen and as a person. We legitimise corruption if we do not ask these questions. We are guilty of complicity if we don't question.

Policemen and former policemen should be held to a higher standard than your average man-in-the-street. Even more so in the light of the rampant corruption within that very profession.

As for awarding him a Datukship or Tan Sri-ship, well, perhaps if he donated some of his money for philanthropic causes of some kind. But are state and national titles to be simply dished out to the wealthy?

Wealth is its own reward, if one earns it honestly. Titles should be awarded to those of character, not of financial ability, unless we want to make the Malaysian nation into one that worships the ringgit.

As to the rule of law and that this cop is 'innocent until proven guilty', I say tell that to the victims chronicled in the police commission's report on police abuses. Tell it to the many other unrecorded victims of police and political corruption.

Tell it to Anwar Ibrahim. Tell it to the victims of the ISA.