So today I had the chance to visit a police station in Malaysia, Johor Bahru, in fact. Since I can't read Malay or speak it to save my life, I have no idea where that place was beyond that it was pretty near City Square which is that shopping centre right outside JB Sentral, where you step out of the CIQ customs from the Woodlands Causeway. What I saw really gave me a shocker. The facepalm kind of shocker, not the oh-shit-that-scared-me kind.
My mother was there just to report her stolen handphone, my sister and I were following since she didn't have a handphone of her own and we didn't want to get separated. At the sentry post of that police station stood a guard with an M16A1 variant, triangular handguard, standard STANAG aluminium box magazine, though I have no idea what other details of the rifle there is, beyond the signature triangular handguard of the A1 variant, nothing really special. An hour or so later, the guard switched. The previous one, the one that was standing duty when I got there, was holding the rifle up, in the "Rusok Sendrata" pose. Not sure if I spelled that right, or if it even is the right command, it was just what I was taught in NCC, where the rifle is held by the right hand on the back of the pistol grip, where the palm of your hand would normally rest on when holding it in a shooting position, with the rifle pointing up at a slight angle, triangular front sight post and gas block just right in front of the right shoulder. This next guard that came along though, oh ho, he was special. Well the guards weren't exactly standing still at duty in a little box where they had to stand. Granted that's alright, guard duty isn't a parade after all but still, show some discipline yea? You represent the police force of Malaysia with that uniform after all.
So as I was saying, this next guard was really something special. If he was one of my cadets back in NCC, if I was posted as a platoon sergeant, hell I'd recommend this guy for RTC(Recruit Training Camp) every fucking year. He'd join the fucking Sec 1s for 3 years. Fucking hell this guy has such little respect for the gun, my goodness. He stood in the "Senangdiri" position, at ease, that means, for my non-melayu speaking friends, gripping the front sight post of the rifle. Or he was supposed to anyway because HIS FUCKING HAND WAS ON THE GOD DAMN MUZZLE OF THE GUN. YOU KNOW THE PART WHERE BULLETS COME WHIZZING OUT AT SPEEDS FASTER THAN SOUND? YEA. THAT HOLE. HAD HIS WHOLE HAND ON IT. Jesus fucking Christ, skin me with a butter knife. Like wot. You're a policeman. Who uses guns. You're supposed to know how to use a gun to save the lives of people by putting down those who would threaten the peace. But it looks like before that happens, you're gonna blow your hand off.
He brazenly walks the fuck around with his hand gripping the muzzle of the gun, palm on the hole of the rifle barrel, ready to blow his fucking hand off if the gun was loaded and the safety fails. OR WOULD IT BECAUSE IT WASN'T EVEN ON SAFE. The fucking rifle, had its safety selector switched to the semi notch. For semi-automatic fire. What the literal serious fuck nugget. And right before then, the previous guard had hipped the rifle. Not exactly shoulder since he held it Rambo style and like waved it around at the ground, facing the police station, with his colleagues and innocent civilians in it. Had it misfired, bullet hits the tarmac, ricochets off the tarmac into the fucking police station and someone dies. What the fuck. The supposed guardians of the state of Johor and this is all they got? Come on, I don't even fucking do this for a job and I can tell you what the fuck you're doing wrong.
Some time ago, maybe a couple years back I think, I saw a story on the internet where there was an MP5 submachinegun(I think, but I know it was a firearm of some sort larger than a pistol) left in a patrol car. Well, nothing special, plenty of police departments internationally carry some sort of larger firepower firearm in their patrol cars, be that a shotgun, submachine gun, long rifle or carbine. Except, it isn't securely locked. I think American patrol vehicles that carry shotguns in the cabin have them locked in a rack between the front seats. Singaporean patrol vehicles I think keep the MP5 submachinegun in a gun safe in the trunk. Well, the MP5 was literally sitting just on top of the handbrake. Just lying there. Smash the glass in and hey, guess what, I know own a fully automatic firearm for free, courtesy of the police. Except guess what? I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO DO THAT. THE WINDOW WAS ROLLED DOWN. Hey yo, free guns I guess. Thank you, kind policeman.
So that's all I have to say, perhaps I think, it is about time Malaysia looks into stricter training for its policemen serving the nation. Can't say if this is the same throughout all of Malaysia but it surely is indicative.
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