Stripped Naked

Did he or did he not?

Constable Mohd Zul Fatah Saari Wednesday denied filming the video clip of a woman doing ear squats naked in a police locker room at the Petaling Jaya police station on June 29.
... Zul Fatah described Lans Corporal Mat Suhaimi Nordin who made the allegation in his testimony at the Commission of Inquiry ... as a liar. [Bernama: Zul Fatah denies filming nude squats video]

The policeman said to have shown the nude squat video clip to a colleague just 90 minutes after it was shot has denied doing so. [The Star: Policeman denies showing video clip to colleague]

One or the other is lying, that much is clear.

Assuming that Suhaimi was telling the truth, you have to be amazed at Zul Fatah's brazenness in filming the video clip at a police station where he was not based at, and later offering the video clip to Suhami, who was his superior officer.

How did Zul Fatah find out that Gadis Lokap was being held at the Petaling Jaya police station?

Who told Zul Fatah that she was a pretty young thing, and that she was about to be ordered to strip and do ear squats?

How did Zul Fatah know where to position himself in order to secretly film Gadis Lokap doing ear squats in the nude? Did someone tell him? Do other policemen know of this "secret location"?

Why did he offer the video clip to Suhaimi? Wasn't he afraid of being hauled up?

One of the more important conclusions that we can draw from this unravelling episode is that there are policemen who are willing to lie, even when they are under oath to tell the truth in a public hearing, and even when the eyes of the entire nation are focussed on them.

The other is that a policeman with the lowly rank of constable could only have been willing to do those things in the manner that they were said to have been done, if there was little risk of him being brought to book for his actions.

[And we haven't even gotten to thinking about what if Suhami was the one lying]

This is not about a few black sheep. This is about an entire environment that in its totality, allows black sheep to thrive.