Police engagement with suspected vehicles during night time left little option and in order to apprehend fleeing suspects, the police had practised maximum delay. Blaring sirens and blinding beacons will be sufficient to notified the fleeing occpants in the vehicle of clear police intention to stop and check them. In order to safeguard the lives of other road user the police pursued the said vehicle for 6 km and had left them little choice but to open fire at the vehicle to halt it. The speed of the fleeing vehicle might endanger others, and one will shuddered to imagine how many life might be lost if the car was to ram on other road user?



There is no way that the police could have determine the age of the driver and after pursuing for 6 km, one could imagine the things that crossed the policemen minds.



For once I choose to disagree with learned Karpal that the charge shall be murder. How can we establish that the shot had intended to kill the driver?



From which angle the shot was fired that can determine the police aimed to kill the boy?

Was there any intention for the policeman to shoot to kill?

Was the boy known to the policeman?

If not, what is the reason the policeman would even want to shoot to kill him?

Were the shots fired was aimed to deflate the tyres rather than to aim at the driver?

The position of the shots fired was so difficult and thinking to shoot bull at the driver is wild and will be beyond any police man dream that they can be so precise to shoot at a moving target unless they are properly trained like the UTK boys.

Although police are trained in high speed chase , the police may be left with option to bring the car to a halt by forcing it off the road and if the driver is killed in that manner the police may also be blame of forcing a child off the road and kill him.

Macam polis hanya nak kena, penjenayah memang tak salah.