Wah liao this guy.
A video showing a police officer in full uniform and a pair of sunglasses threatening Ah Longs, or loan sharks, who operate in his jurisdiction, has gone viral. And why shouldn’t it? This is pretty entertaining, WWE-level stuff.
The Star Online‘s T Avineshwaran identifies the officer in the video as police chief ASP Chen Ah Kooy of the Menglembu police station, whose jurisdiction is on the outskirts of Ipoh, Perak.
In the video, ASP Chen vehemently threatens loan sharks who not only operate in his area, but even those who post up banner ads in Menglembu that he will kill them if he catches them. Like, dead.
Standing in front of an unidentified (and seemingly terrified) man holding up one such banner ad, ASP Chen declares that he would never – NEVER – use loan shark money himself, and if loan sharks in the area have a problem with his law enforcement techniques, they could sic their lawyers on him.
He also dared Ah Longs in the area to chek chow (go toe to toe) with him, and claimed to know loan sharks in the area have guns they bought ilegally from Thailand. (He didn’t seem to be fazed by that knowledge at all.)
Intimidating as the video message might be, Chen’s bosses don’t seem to have found it an appropriate policing tactic.
Ipoh OCP Assistant Commissioner Sum Chang Keong has reportedly slammed the video, saying that Chen’s actions and manner of speech were unbecoming of an officer of the PDRM.
Unbecoming or not, we get the feeling that any loan sharks still daring to ply their trade in Menglembu will be the ones with big brass ones. Or, you know, a truckload of Thai guns.
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