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Tabled: Bill to set up Special Commission
By FLORENCE A. SAMY
KUALA LUMPUR: A Special Complaints Commission Bill 2007 was tabled in Parliament Thursday morning.
The Bill will allow for the setting up of a Commission to receive and investigate complaints against law enforcement officers in the country.
The Commission will have seven members including a chairman to be appointed by the Prime Minister.
Members would include the Inspector-General of Police, Public Complaints Bureau director-general, the Anti-Corruption Agency director-general and three others.
The Bill was tabled for the first reading by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz and was expected to be debated in this session, which ends on Dec 19.
After Nazri tabled the Bill, Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang (DAP – Ipoh Timur) stood up in the House and questioned whether the Bill was actually the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) Bill.
“Is this replacing the IPCMC Bill? If it is not, then why is it not called the IPCMC Bill,” he questioned.
Nazri continued according to procedure -- he was not obliged to answer any MP when tabling a Bill for the first reading.
The IPCMC was one of the 125 recommendations made by the Royal Commission to enhance the operation and management of the police force.
According to the Bill, the Commission shall establish a Task Force to help it in its duties.
