HOMEWORK: FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

AMEER KHAN (BLEI B1)

MUHD QAYUUM (BLEI B1)
R.THANESH (BLEI B1)

1 .What are the responsibilities of the officials listed below:

(A)POLICE
-Royal Malaysia Police, is a uniformed federal police force in Malaysia. The
force is a centralised of control, employment organisation in Malaysia. Its
headquarters located in Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. The constitution,
,recruitment, funding, discipline, duties and powers of the police force are
specified and governed by the Police Act 1967,In carrying out its
responsibilities, the regular Royal Malaysian Police is also assisted by a support
of group of the extra Police Constables, Police Volunteer Reserves, Auxiliary
Police, Police Cadets and a civilian service element. Royal Malaysia Police is
the main government agency entrusted with the maintenance of law & order in
the country, is the main responsibility of RMP to protect our citizens from
neglecting wrongly and also protect our country with peaceful nations.

(B)PRISON DEPARTMENT
-The Malaysian Prison Department is a department controlled by the Malaysian
Minister of Home Affairs responsible for jails where offenders sentenced by the
courts are held. These jails also act as detention and recovery institutions. The
department is headquartered in the Malaysia Prison Complex is located at
Kajang, Selangor. Prisons are different from other institutions or organisations
found in a modern society. They are places where a group of trained personnel
manages and looks after a group of people known as prisoners who are not there
voluntarily and are instead forced inside and prevented from leaving by guards,
walls and gates. Prison Department cannot choose its clients and they have no
power to release them. These prisoners have to live according to set of
prescribed rules, and their movements are tightly controlled.
(C)LAWYERS/JUDGES
-Lawyers are represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal
proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal
transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many
areas of law. The responsibility of the lawyers is advise and represent clients in
courts, before government agencies, and in private legal matters, Communicate
with their clients, colleagues, judges, and others involved in the case, Conduct
research and analysis of legal problems, Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations
for individuals and business regards. The general reasoning behind the
importance of lawyers is that all human beings are equal, and each person
deserves an equal opportunity to receive legal justice, because lawyers are
readily available to the people have a decent chance at accessing the justice that
is due to them.

2. Explain the unethical methods used by the officials below in carrying out
their tasks and responsibilities towards a suspect/defendant/inmate?

(A)POLICE
-Types of misconduct include of the police officers is coerced false confession,
intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence,
spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality,
police corruption, racial profiling, unwarranted surveillance, unwanted searches.
In an effort to control police misconduct, there is an accelerating trend for
civilian agencies to engage directly in investigations and have to greater inputs
into disciplinary decisions. Additionally individuals and groups are now filming
police activities in an effort to make them accountable for their actions. To
protect their interests, some officers have resorted to verbal intimidation as well
as physical violence against citizens attempting to record their misdeeds.
(B)PRISON DEPARTMENT
-Prisoners and probationers shall be communicate within the framework of
implementing official duties, The prison officer shall refrain from any activities
that might question his/her objectivity upon communication
prisoners/probationers, it shall to redeeming of which beyond the limits of
his/her competence.

(C)LAWYERS&JUDGES
-Attorney Misconduct Law and Legal Definition. Attorney Misconduct means
unethical or illegal conduct by an attorney in contradiction with the established
rules of professional conduct. It is usually punishable with disciplinary
measures by his/her licensing of legal body. Not every ethical violation
represents professional malpractice will support a right of financial
compensation against the offending lawyer. Sometimes your dispute will turn
out to be little more than an argument over fees. In an our event, our attorneys
will listen to the story, review the history of case, and advise you appropriately
under the facts and the law that applies in the situation. For example, best option
will be to file a complaint against the attorney before the disciplinary board,
others will have the right to sue the lawyer for damages.
3. To which extend, are the officials in Malaysia carrying out their designated
responsibilities in a proper manner? What is your take on it?

(C)LAWYERS/JUDGES
-Lawyers should be mindful of the duty of confidentiality when they engage in
public commentary, including blogs, website postings, tweets informational
videos, webinars, podcasts and other more traditional formats, according to the
standard of committee on ethics and professional responsibility. The duty of
lawyer is confidentiality is broad and includes all information related to the
representation, not just want learned directly from the client. The reach of this
rule is much broader than the attorney- client privilege or the work product
doctrine. Lawyers have a duty to keep everything a client tells them
confidential. This is an ethical and legal duty of the lawyer. The courts also
respect the confidential nature of the lawyer-client relationship during a trial.
Neither the client nor the lawyer will be asked to divulge in court what they
have discussed. The right to confidentiality is your right and not your lawyers.
The exception to this is when a client seeks that guidance in the commission of
a crime or fraud. In this case, a lawyer may decide to report a client to the
police, and the court , may require the lawyer to divulge the information. Many
other confidential relationships are protected by professional ethics and the law.
Defendants who bring strangers in to a meeting risk losing the right to claim
that the meeting was confidential. However the lawyer can maintain the
privilege by convincing judge that it was necessary to include the stranger into
the conversation. For example, if the third party can shed light on the case or
otherwise help the lawyer develop a strategy, that person’s presence would not
destroy the confidentiality of the conversation.