’The Sound of the Police’ and the Readdressing of Its Role: A Comparison of the Indonesian, Sri Lankan, and Cambodian Contexts

The Police play a vital role within any criminal justice framework, and the test of their efficiency lies in the reduction of crime. This paper points to the issues with the criminal codes and procedures in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia, the role of the Police institution as the entity of law enforcement and highlights the fact that bad laws inevitably lead to bad policing. All three chosen countries have had periods in their history where the police institution was radically changed or
drastically affected.

The analysis focuses on four key areas where the Police have violated citizens’ rights to personal integrity, namely, arbitrary arrest, arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment, brutality, and corruption, which are seen as a series of events rather than isolated incidents.

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