In Brazil, Taiwan and US. Police report to Mayor. Not President. However, there is a "Federal Bureau of Investigation" call FBI governed by the President of America. Mayor of a city is a person that responsible for fighting crime. In Malaysia, Datuk Bandar or Mayor is not elected representative. Only state government, Menteri Besar and Chief Minister are elected by the public. Thus, I feel Police should under State Government report to each Menteri Besar and Chief Minister, at least the crime fighting division. Other division can report to federal government, like FBI in US.
Then, the Police organization become less powerful. Nanyang has reported that ACA has investigated the 34million police before but the file has been closed. Now the file has been "re-open" after the Royal Commission report. This might be cause by the Police organization is too powerful. The ACA not dare to touch the big fish? It might not be surprise that eventually the file would close again.
If the Police organization is separate into two. One, like FBI report to federal government and the other crime fighting division report to state government.
Then the ACA might not feel offended a large, powerful organization reported to Prime Minister when they act on police who did wrong. ACA usually smaller, in term of staff number compare with Police.
Further, FBI can investigate on police and vice-versa..... A check & balance occur. Menteri Besar and Chief Minister able to act on their respective state crime rate, without a police officer answer them arrogantly that the crime rate has "reduced" according to their record. Police of each state is competing with their counter part in other state and thus imcrease competitiveness of the police force.
One disadvantage on this system, if implemented, is police under PAS ruling state has to be act on Hudud Law. However, this is the choice of that state people. They have to face the consequences of their vote!
Update: On 16 Dec 2005 The Sun's columnist Radzuan Halim do comment briefly on such issue. He stated :
Its centralised management structure had continued to this day. Contrast this with the separate constabularies of Great Britain and the separate state, county and city police forces in the United States.
We do need to review the management structure to determine if certain RMP functions could be better placed under other agencies, to consider the formation of regional contingents to take up certain Bukit Aman functions and so on.
Read full article here
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3 comments:
interesting idea!
Definitely a very excellent idea.
Will forward this suggestion to the opposition parties for consideration.
Excellent!
A better idea is to split the police force along federal, state and local lines. And have local elections. The federal police force would be used to enforce interstate crimes, state police force would act to bridge local police forces, etc.
In addition to that, keeping the police force to the lowest government unit ensures that it would be efficient - the state can ignore a few daerahs that don't matter electorally in fighting crime, but it is harder for local governments to ignore a certain section of the population.
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