Have you ever been issue a traffic summon for not having reflector on your bicycle??!?!

Has anyone out there hear of police arresting cyclist and then giving them given traffic summon for not having reflectors on their BICYCLE!!!!!

In the whole WORLD is there any country where the police does that?!?!

YES THERE IS!!! ITS HERE IN MALAYSIA!!!

Dec 6th (SAT), 16 activists who were about to take part in the cycling campaign were arrested at Suaram’s office in Skudai and released after about an hour of questioning.

According to Nalini, who is also Suaram co-ordinator, the police arrested the group for illegal assembly.
"But I argued that it was not an illegal assembly as we were all just trying to cycle. But the police said that they received specific instructions to arrest us," said Nalini.

Jerit co-ordinator Y Kohila said there were 32 people in Suaram’s Skudai office this morning when "police locked us in".

50 police officers put up a total of eight roadblocks around the office area. (wah! what are they terrorist ah?!?! they are kids only!!)

"We were not allowed to go out and the police started disturbing our bicycles, sitting on them and pushing them, and that’s when we got angry," said Kohila, adding that the police accused activists of being unco-operative.

"The police are still following our bus to all the places we are going to. They are intimidating us by taking pictures and preventing us from moving."

At around 4.30pm (same day), 13 activists started cycling from Kulai to Simpang Renggam. However, according to Nalini, police stopped the Jerit activists and took them to the Kulai police station, where they were issued traffic summonses for not having reflectors on their bicycles.

The campaign is Jerit’s attempt to raise awareness of the current issues plaguing the country like food shortage, environmental problems, draconian laws and the current financial crisis.

The group is scheduled to hand over a memorandum to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim at the end of their campaign.

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(If I had taken the word "police" out of the article above, would you believe they were behaving as police officers or gangster thugs bullying poor Malaysian around!)

Has the police no proper code of conduct or character?!?! Can they simply arrest and release people with no proper charges?!?!?

On the 4th Dec, one of JERIT's cyclists was briefly detained by the police in Kedah.

Then the next day, the police stopped the lorry carrying 50 bicycles after it had crossed the bridge in Teluk Kumbar and escorted the lorry to the police station.

However, the lorry and the bicycles were released at 6pm - three hours after they were seized.

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WORSE OF ALL WAS IN PENANG!!

A group of policemen, led by Jalan Patani police station chief, one Chief Inspector Jamaluddin, manhandled and tried to drag away the event’s northern region co-ordinator Choo Choon Kai, 30.

Even though Choo told Jamaluddin that he was there on a pre-arranged appointment with Lim, who was attending an international economic conference at the hotel, the police officer refused to listen.
"I don’t care (about Lim’s appointment). I want you all to disperse now," he warned Choo.

The hotel management was also unco-operative today, shutting down entrance doors and denying cyclist entry into the hotel. An officer, known only as Samy, called on the cyclists to disperse saying that hotel guests were "terrified" by their presence.

(Terrified of kids ah?!?)

A check with a hotel guest, known only as Elizabeth, however, revealed that most guests were more curious, than terrified.

"We were just curious about who the cyclists were," said Elizabeth, who declined to be photographed.

I really wish our police would actually do their job!!

They are harassing the wrong group!

With robbers, snatch thieves, murderers and etc out there, our police force divert so much resources to a bunch of cyclist!!!

The IGP must have the same brain (or lack of it) as Syed Hamid Alba!!!

Does he not realise that all that they are doing is to divert more attention to this JERIT group!!! I would not have paid much attention to it if not for the shocking actions of the police!!!

The real criminals here are those who torch the poor JERIT's bicycle!!!

The police should take quick action against these people and not the JERIT group!!

But do you think the police will be as efficient in catching these criminals as they were in harassing the JERIT group?!?!

(I don't think so because that would mean that the police will actually be doing their job!!)

HERE IS PROVE THAT THE POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR THE EASY WAY OUT!

Responding, Penang deputy chief police officer Sallah Mat Rasid reportedly asked for the campaign to be called off, saying he has been informed that certain people are not happy with the Jerit’s demands.
(Excuse me!!! Do your job and protect the rights of Malaysian can or not!!! Just because some people are not happy does not mean you chicken out in protecting all Malaysian!)

Instead of protecting the rights and security of all Malaysian, what does our PDRM do?!?!

Go out and waste millions of our tax payer's money on 25 high-powered Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution toy for themselves!!!!!

MALAYSIA BOLEH LAH!!

Please note that I am not against the Police Force. I am grateful that we even have police force, In fact I have a few police friends that are good cops!

However most of them are just following orders. They do not have a say in their actions and they have no free will of their own.

It is the few brainless, corupt, greedy, @ss kisser in the police force that has to be weed out of Police Force and it has to start from the top!