Pakatan to form special committee on IPCMC - Anisah Shukry

The opposition coalition is also appealing to BN parliamentarians to support their bill on the establishment of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC).

PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat will set up a special committee to push for the establishment of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) once Parliament convenes on June 24, DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang announced today.

The Gelang Patah MP said this in the wake of three deaths in custody in the past 11 days.

Describing it as an “outrageous” record, Lim said this proved that the Enforcement Agencies Integrity Commission (EAIC) had failed to resolve the issue.

“We will set up a committee comprising two members of parliament from each party in Pakatan, and they will be responsible for coming up with the bill to establish the IPCMC.

“But we need enough members of parliament to support this. We have 89 MPs from Pakatan, and we need another 23 to obtain a simple majority so that we can set up the IPCMC,” he told a press conference here.

He appealed to BN parliamentarians to stop thinking along party lines and throw their weight behind the bill, pointing out that it was for the common good of the people.

“MIC have said four of their MPS want to see the IPCMC set up, while in MCA, vice-president Gan Ping Sieu said he supported it,” Lim said.


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