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Government to act against those who make mockery of statutory declarations |
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:51pm |
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(Used by permission)
KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 (Bernama) -- Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar
today warned that the government would act against those who make a mockery of
statutory declarations.
He said anyone could just make a statutory declaration and it would be accepted
in a court of law.
"I hope the people will understand that making a statutory declaration is a
serious matter and if it is not the truth they are liable to action," he said
when winding up debate on the motion on the Mid-Term Review of the Ninth
Malaysia Plan in the Dewan Negara.
He said it was not the intention of the government to prevent anyone from making
statutory declarations but there had been criticisms with regard to the case of
private investigator P. Balasubramaniam who had made two conflicting statutory
declarations in a period of 24 hours on the alleged involvement of Deputy Prime
Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in the murder of Mongolian woman, Altantuya
Shaariibuu.
On Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's criticism that
he had yet to receive a copy of the police report made by his former aide Mohd
Saiful Bukhari Azlan accusing him (Anwar) of having sodomised him, Syed Hamid
said a copy of the report would only be provided when there was a charge
involved, in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code.
"Under Section 51A of the Criminal Procedure Code, a copy of the report is made
available only if there is a charge," he said.
He also said that the government would raise the ratio of the number of
policemen to civil servants from the current 1:280 to 1:250 or 12 per cent
higher than the ratio proposed by Interpol.
"The Royal Malaysia Police have seven departments and a staff of 97,710, and 84
per cent of these personnel are involved in policing," he said.
On the assumption that it was wasteful for the government to increase the number
of temporary detention depots for illegal immigrants nationwide, Syed Hamid said
the centres were necessary to house them until the results of the investigation
against them were ready.
"If we do not increase these facilities, the prisons in the country will become
congested and difficult to manage," he said when replying to a question from
Datuk Saripah Aminah Syed Mohamed.
He said eight of these detention depots would be built, six in Peninsular
Malaysia and two in Sarawak.
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