In today's The Star:
Pakatan reps: Cops harassing us by photographing homes
IPOH: Five Perak Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen are claiming harassment after some men, identifying themselves as police personnel, snapped photographs of their family houses.
The incidents allegedly took place between 5.30pm and 7pm on Saturday, with the group visiting the homes of Thomas Su (Pasir Pinji), Lim Pek Har (Menglembu), A. Sivasubramaniam (Buntong), Loke Chee Yan (Kepayang) and Chang Lih Kang (Teja).
Loke said he was at home when a neighbour alerted him of the presence of two white vans outside, sporting the logo and word “Polis”.
“From the upper floor of my home, I saw someone in uniform take a picture of the house and another picture of my house number.
“He then left in the van,” he said at a press conference at Wisma DAP here yesterday.
“This happened at about 7pm.” Lim said a plainclothes policeman, who came with several others in two marked police vans at 5.30pm, told her husband that they were taking pictures “for the assemblyman’s protection”.
Su called on the police to explain themselves and denounced it as a move to intimidate him and his family ahead of the coming May 7 state assembly sitting.
“They (the police) gave us no notice at all. The police should stop this and concentrate on solving crime, and not be a tool for Barisan Nasional,” Su added.
When contacted, Perak police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said police were only carrying out crime prevention duties ahead of the May 7 sitting.
He clarified that this was just a precautionary measure, considering the intensity of feedback from blogs, newspaper reports and ceramah.
“We are carrying out patrols and doing our rounds for all assemblymen,” he said, adding that he would hold a press conference today on the security measures for the Thursday sitting.
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