YOURSAY ‘Has the police chief decided that he knows better than the courts?’

IGP to take 'middle path' in custody battles

Malaccan: So, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar can now decide which court order he will follow, and to what extent he will follow it?

Has Khalid decided he knows better than the courts and will act according to his own interpretation of the law and judgment of the court?

Who is he to decide to place the child in a childcare centre? Is it for the benefit of the child? Is he competent to decide this when his competency in leading the police force is very much and widely questioned by the public?

Who is he to play Solomon by deciding what will be fair to both parents? The courts should summon him before the bench and put him in his place without delay - before he makes further statements to erode the confidence of the people in the police force as a whole, which has been done a great injury and disservice by its leader’s incompetency and neglect of duty.

Aries46: Is this some kind of comedy? Or, more seriously, is the IGP vested with powers to arbitrate on the decisions of the civil courts? What middle path?

Why is the IGP so sympathetic to rogue fathers using the one-way conversion facilities to abscond from their matrimonial obligations and then seek sanctuary in the syariah court to unilaterally convert their minor offspring, merely to gain custody?

Why does the IGP draw a parallel between such heinous manipulation of the syariah courts and the plight of the forsaken and betrayed mothers that have pursued the arduous task of upholding the legality of their civil law marriages to seek a divorce from their fugitive spouses, and obtain custody of her children from the civil courts empowered to deal with such cases?

Why must the innocent children be confined to a home when their biological mothers have fought tooth and nail to rescue them from any further manipulation by the fathers, who now lie low from the community's disgust and scorn?

Mohgui: If the IGP upholds the court's order, he will anger the Muslim folks. If he upholds the Syariah Court's order, he will anger the common folks. So he chose the middle path.

Oriole: For crying out loud, is the IGP now going to pluck children from their homes by force and lock them up in orphanages?

This is what happened to the children of the ‘stolen generation’ in Australia. Is Malaysia now going to get another dubious reputation for snatching children from homes and locking them up in detention centres?

As it is, the country is the laughing stock for snatching brides from their weddings and dead persons from their funeral rites.

It's time lawmakers, human rights bodies, and international agencies step in to force the police to do their job and to obey court orders. Where are the children's rights advocates?

Otherwise, ask the IGP to step down and let a more responsible person enforce the order of the civil court.

Boycott MSM: Can any lawyer give an answer: Is the IGP more powerful than the courts?

Ksn: In other words, IGP, you could not care less about the civil court decisions and the federal constitution.

Moreover, he means the syariah courts and the civil courts have the same powers and jurisdiction. In fact, the syariah courts have powers even over non-Muslims.

Have our judiciary and the chief justice anything to say about the IGP's views when he openly challenges its decision? The attorney-general, of course, is silent. Where is the country being taken to?

Corgito Ergo Sum: There is a breakdown in law when the highest ranking police officer disobeys the courts of law of the land.

Is not the law of the land the civil law? If the IGP disregards this then the Penal Code and all other laws are null and void. What a disastrous decision.

Relevancy: It looks like the country really has a serious problem when the IGP is unable to execute the rules of law given by the country's court. And adding salt to the wound, the country has multiple courts with different interpretations.

Seriously, the country is truly divided and disunited. The country's law courts better get their act together as well as the politicians.

We may be a multi-national, multi-cultural country, but we do not need to have multi-systems of governance that create chaos.

Negarawan: IGP Khalid Abu Bakar is talking like he is a High Court judge. He should be charged for contempt of court. Putting the children in a childcare centre is not in the best interest of the young children. Khalid has no idea what he is talking about.

Naatamai: Does the IGP understand the amount of stress the children would be exposed to? Why should innocent children be punished for the wrongdoings of the adults?

Would the IGP expose his children to such a situation? He is just supposed to enforce the decision of the civil court and not act like a judge and jury.

Angelababy: Indeed, when is the IGP above the law?

'On custody cases, the Muslim majority rules'

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