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Police officer suspended over
The Queensland police officer found to be responsible for the death of a man on Palm Island two years ago will be suspended from duty.
Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley had been assigned to desk duties while the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) considered the matter.
Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson now says he has received a formal submission from Senior Sergeant Hurley's lawyers requesting that he be suspended from duty.
Mr Atkinson says he has considered the submission and has decided that he will suspend Senior Sergeant Hurley from all police duties on full... Read more
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14 December 2005
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Malaysian police defend strip
Malaysia's deputy police chief has defended the strip-search policy that caused public outcry when a woman was secretly filmed naked in police custody.
Musa Hassan, the deputy inspector general of police, said such strip-search procedures were also used by authorities in countries such as the United States and Australia to ensure that suspects were not concealing banned objects such as weapons and drugs.
"It is merely a practice, and this practice is accepted," Musa said on Wednesday during a public inquiry into the case of a woman who was allegedly forced to disrobe and do squats in front of a female officer in a police compound.
Musa, speaking to a panel of legal experts and politicians appointed by the government to determine if police violated the woman's rights, said police personnel were constantly reminded to respect the dignity of detainees, in accordance with international human rights standards.
China outraged
Based on her appearance in a secretly shot video, the woman was initially believed to be a Chinese national or an ethnic Chinese Malaysian. But a 22-year-old ethnic Malaysian who testified at the inquiry on Tuesday claimed she was the woman.
China's government has issued a formal protest and urged action after the video was made public by a Malaysian opposition lawmaker who received it from an anonymous source last month.
The camera phone footage also triggered public concerns that police mistreatment of detainees was rampant.
The inquiry panel, which began public hearings on Monday, has forbidden the media from revealing the identity of the woman, saying it would cause her undue embarrassment.
She claimed the incident occurred in June when she was arrested for alleged drug possession, and that she has since been formally charged, but remains free on bail.
The Malay woman returned to the inquiry on Wednesday after Sankara Nair, a Malaysian lawyer, said there were doubts that she was the woman in the video, because she had her back to the public gallery Tuesday in the courtroom where the inquiry was taking place.
After the woman faced reporters and members of the public at Wednesday's hearing, Nair said: "Yes, positively identified."
Also at Wednesday's inquiry, police constable Zul Fatah Saari denied he filmed the woman. Another officer, Suhaimi Nordin, said on Tuesday that Zul Fatah showed him the footage in June and indicated to him that Zul Fatah recorded it at a police station in a Kuala Lumpur suburb.
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