The New York Police Department (NYPD) will share its best practices and experience in fighting corruption within its own ranks with the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM).
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told Bernama‘s Jamaluddin Muhammad that the NYPD’s image may have suffered 20 years ago due to the poor perception of its integrity, but had overcome those hurdles by implementing a set of best practices.
“Malaysian police are currently facing a similar problem too although they managed to bring the crime rate down,” he said.
NYPD best practices state that a police officer is considered to have committed an offence if he or she refuses to take a report, disputes an arrest of summons, has any criminal association, disagrees with police department policy or action, is involved in a domestic dispute, misuses police computer facilities, or engages in unbecoming conduct while off-duty, among others.
“The public have the perception that the majority of the police are corrupted,” Zahid said.
He hoped that the implementation of the NYPD best practices code would improve the public standing of the PDRM, bolster people’s confidence in its integrity, and increase its effectiveness in enforcing the law.
Zahid had previously met with senior NYPD officials and former NYPD commissioner Charles V Campisi, and discussed ways to improve the PDM’s integrity.
“The NYPD has managed to tackle systemic corruption, opportunistic corruption and familiarity corruption among its officers,” he said.
The PDRM had set up the Standard Compliance and Integrity Department last May in the hope of weeding out corruption within the force.
The new department had also been put in place at every police contingent at the district level.
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