COMMENT | Police lock-ups for suspects under probe, not accused persons

COMMENT | On Jan 13, 2022, a 63-year-old man, died in a police lock-up at the Taiping district police headquarters (IPD), Perak. The deceased was an accused person who had already been charged in court in April 2021, and as such he should rightly have been returned to his place of detention at the prison complex, possibly Taiping prison, and not placed in any police lock-up.

Bukit Aman Integrity and Standards Compliance Department (JIPS) director Datuk Azri Ahmad said “The accused had been placed in the Taiping IPD lock-up after the first mention of the case on Jan 11 while awaiting the next mention tomorrow.”

MADPET (Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture) states that after his court date on Jan 11, 2022, he should have immediately been returned to prison, and brought back to court again on Jan 15.