I want more!!!!

GEMAS: A policeman has lodged a report against all his colleagues including his superiors allegedly over dissatisfaction on how the monthly bribes from those operating illegal activities was being distributed.

In retaliation, one of his superiors, a sergeant, lodged another police report against the policeman, a lance corporal, for allegedly selling station property to scrap dealers.

Read the entire report here.

OK - those of us are not surprised to hear about this, put your hands up! I guess not many hands would remain down. Almost all of us know the corrupt state of the policemen in this country. Almost everyone if not all have heard stories of policemen asking for bribes. A lot of us have encountered such "men of law" who had asked us for some "coffee money" - some blatantly too!!!

Yet, we are not allowed to talk about it openly (i may get into trouble but the readership of this blog is kinda small - like nil?? - so no worries there) and i read once in the past that local movies are not allowed to depict policemen asking/taking bribes!!!

Anyways, when i skimmed thru the first few lines of the aforementioned report, i was thinking to meself - ah... finally, a good cop who can't stand the corruption that is going on around him. A hero?

Then i read it properly and the real picture came out:-

A source said the lance corporal, in his 40s, was dissatisfied with his superiors for allegedly taking the lion’s share of the bribes while the rank and file received very little.

“In fact, the complainant claimed that he did not get a sen,” the source said.

So he lodged the report cuz HE WAS NOT GETTING A SHARE OF THE BRIBES!!!!!!

So what does this tell us?

1. Accepting bribery is happening among the policemen in our country;

2. In some places (at least in this particular one in Gemas), it is so rampant and common that they have a system of how it is "distributed"!!!! It's like the tips waiters receive - it is shared at the end of the day among all waiters.

3. There are policemen who are so thick that they have a gall to lodge a report because they are not getting a share of the illegal bribes!!!!!

Malaysia boleh!