self regulation never works here

Is it the Asian mentality? Or is it human nature? To self-regulate is rarely a success.

Why would the malaysian police insist that the police commission, their internal organisation, is sufficient to regulate them? Two royal commissions have stated the failure of the existing set-up. And yet they have the cheek to resist and insist on status quo to remain.

Why they as well as the umno MPs would insist on status quo to remain is pretty obvious . Its public perception that corruption is rife within the force...from the bottom... upwards. That is the perception. The coffeeshop talk. While they may claim to have a high case-solving percentage, they somehow fail to admit the various high profile failures in prosecution. The crime rate is still at uncomfortable levels. If status quo was changed and an independent body was there to investigate and regulate, that would mean a substantial percentage of the force being possibly implicated.

And when they go down, surely all the local politicians who have been riding the wave and benefitting from the selective prosecution will also be implicated. A highly effective and impartial police force would mean the substantial reduction in crime, corruption included.

Money, or the possible end or reduction of ill-gotten money, could be the motivating factor that is holding up the setting up of this independent police commission.

And as usual, i dont think the present govt. has the balls to walk the talk. The way the PM caved in with the policewomen-in-tudung-during-official-function issue itself was just proof of where we are headed.

There was another issue highlighted in the local papers recently. About some prick telling us that non-malays werent applying for civil service positions and were not interested. This supposedly was the reason for their low numbers.

Hello! Why would anyone of us bother to apply an organisation that blatantly discriminates against them? Time and again we have seen qualified people being by-passed promotion just because they dont have the right "kulitification". At the entry point itself very very low numbers, if any at all, are taken in. Just look at the Johor Corporation, Johor State Government Civil Service and even the Federal civil service. The former two hardly has any non-malay at all. Given the fact that you hardly see anyone there, and if youre in you might be by-passed by your juniors year in year out even if youre out-performing them, it doesnt take a genius or a Harvard consultancy to figure out the problems or solutions.

Time for lunch.