May 21, 2012
Public space as well as privacy
Posted upon twenty May 2012 07:27pm
Last updated upon twenty May 2012 08:54pm
by R. Nadeswaran
AT a rate issues have been expanding, a single thing is certain. No Malaysian will go hungry any more. At a rate giveaway dishes have been dished out or programmed to be dished out, there won't be a hungry soul during least in a little areas in a Klang Valley.
Last week, there were giveaway burgers in Damansara. Yesterday, there was ostensible be giveaway thosai in Ampang as well as over a next couple of days, a couple of alternative instances of these antics were programmed though subsequently aborted.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar's unbelievable greeting to a criticism by a organisation which set up stalls outward Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan's home has non-stop a floodgates to a little coarse Malaysians formulation supernatural frolics of their own.
Instead of offering a trustworthy bargain of a law, he was quoted as saying: "What offence? If you wish to sit in front of her residence but disrupting alternative people, there is no corruption privacy? They didn't enter her house; they were in open space."
So, have been you to assume which you can do whatever you wish in open space which causes distrurbance to fellow citizens? And does this additionally meant dozens of people can pitch tents outward someone's house? Can adults now put up a table as well as place 4 chairs as well as play a diversion of overpass inside a roundabout? Going by Khalid's logic, they have been in a open place; they have been not disrupting alternative people as well as did not invade anyone's privacy.
Khalid's pre! ference of words as well as bargain of a law has now created a
incident where anyone can do anything in what he termed as open space. As a No. 2 in a Police force, you should not be celebration of a mass a law to him as you have been sure which Khalid is familiar with a Penal Code as well as alternative legislation used to make law as well as order. Perhaps, it is timely to remind readers of such a law.
Section 268 of a Penal Code states: A chairman is guilty of a open nuisance, who does any act, or is guilty of an bootleg omission, which causes any usual injury, danger, or distrurbance to a public, or to a people in ubiquitous who dwell or occupy property in a vicinity, or which contingency necessarily means injury, obstruction, danger, or distrurbance to persons who might have occasion to make use of any open right.
Since when did a Police stop bothering people in open space? Four years ago, my friends as well as I who were outward a residence in Petaling Jaya were accosted by 4 policemen upon motorcycles. They longed for to know a reasons you were sitting upon a culvert outside. When a occupant of a residence identified himself as well as said you were his guest as well as had stepped out for a smoke, a Policemen left.
Every citizen of this country is entitled to assent as well as safety where he or she resides. As such, he or she cannot be in jeopardy or tormented with impunity by anyone. The "uncivilised" mode of criticism which borders upon absurdity as well as illegality has no place in a society.
We have mostly talked about being a grown rep! ublic th ough this is not measured only by a highways, a buildings, a cars you expostulate or a income in a banks. More importantly, a capability to demonstrate ourselves in a demeanour befitting ourselves reflects a maturity of a society.
While you demonstrate a offend during a deplorable control of a protesters which is totally unacceptable, you contingency additionally hold those responsible for enforcing a law for their lackadaisical attitude in combating unacceptable practices.
We have regularly perceived policemen as friends whose primary responsibilities have been to make law as well as order as well as look after a interests of a citizen. In a many opportunities to correlate with them upon as well as off duty, you found them to be people who infrequently have to be cruel to be kind. We have enjoyed a friendship as well as support of many as you share usual goals as well as concerns.
The events of a past have shown which such views have changed, judging by comments in a blogosphere. The Police have mostly called for open co-operation in fighting crime. Now with this uncalled for remarks, how would a police expect such co-operation?
Let us not run divided from a fact which many of a Policemen have been you do yeoman service. They have been there directing traffic under a on fire sun as well as in a rain. We believe all Malaysians appreciate their services, though when their acts of repudiation as well as elect comparison usual sense, a people have been entitled to re-think their positions.
R. Nadeswaran remains a crony of a police as well as a occasional errors of judgment. He will go on to debate for improved salaries as well as operative conditions for a men in blue. He is editor (special as well as inquisitive reporting) during theSun as well as can be reached at: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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