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Gayoom Establishes Police Inte
President Gayoom has established a Police Integrity Commission (PIC) with the aim of “enhancing public confidence in the police services,” the president’s office announced on Friday.
According to the president, the PIC is “mandated to hear public complaints on police conduct and etiquette and to report their findings on each case to the Minister of Home Affairs.” The report on the findings of the PIC will also be released publicly on an annual basis.
The government agreed to create a PIC during the Westminster House talks with the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP). The Roadmap for the President’s democratic reform agenda, which was announced on 27 March 2006, also included the establishment of a PIC.
The MDP has long complained that the police are heavily politicized and has called for an overhaul of the service. But the party said on Friday that the newly established PIC was toothless and stacked full of government cronies:
“The MDP is extremely disappointed by the lack of consultation over the membership and the mandate of the newly-formed Police Integrity Commission. The Commission as announced last night is neither genuinely independent nor its members acceptable to this party.”
“The MDP has serious concerns about the ability of the Commission to fulfill its mandate if the membership proposed by the government stands. Contrary to the spirit of the Westminster House Common Grounds, the MDP was not sufficiently consulted over who would sit neither on the Commission nor on its mandate. Only with genuine independence from the police and from government will the Commission be able to address police violence and create an atmosphere conducive to broader democratic reform,” the party said.
In particular, the MDP is unhappy that five of the seven people appointed by the President to the PIC are government employees.
The members of the PIC are Dr. Aishath Shehenaz Adam, Mr. Ahmed Najah, Mr. Mohamed Ismail Fulhu, Ms. Aminath Hussain Didi, Mr. Ahmed Shafeeq, Mr. Ahmed Izzath Sidqi and Ms. Shabab Rasheed.
“There is not one single member who will in order to stick to principle, walk out of a meeting of the commission nor give an open vote against the government line, nor make a public comment to such effect,” MDP Secretary-General Hamid Abdul Gafoor told Minivan News.
“As such this party calls upon the government to dissolve the Commission and start afresh as agreed by both parties in Westminster House,” Hamid added.
The government’s Judicial Services Commission, established last year to “strengthen the independence of the judiciary,” has been heavily criticized since its formation for failing to take on board complaints of judicial bias during opposition trials.
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