Nur Jazlan: We will review SOP on issuing of weapons

JOHOR BARU: The Home Ministry will review the standard operating procedures of all government agencies issued with weapons to ensure that guns do not fall into the wrong hands, especially terrorists.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed said the authorities needed to address the issue of stolen or missing weapons, such as the recent case involving dozens of guns belonging to Rela, which went missing in Perak recently. Several suspects were arrested and some of the missing firearms recovered.

“We need to get the guns monitored. When I was in the Public Accounts Committee, we discovered that the police were still using the manual system for keeping tabs of their weapons.

“Now, they are doing it via an online system,” he said after attending a walkabout with residents in Bukit Indah here yesterday.

Nur Jazlan also said that it would not be easy for terrorists to get the weapons due to tight controls.

He added that terrorists who wanted to bring guns into the country would try to do so by dismantling them.

“They try to import the components in and assemble the weapons.

“However, it is not easy to import the bullets as they can be easily tracked,” he said, adding that the gun components were acquired from neighbouring countries.

To counter this, Nur Jazlan said the authorities were doing their best to monitor all ports and airports.

“People must also realise that our land borders are also vast and we are doing our best to foil any terrorist act. We have managed to stop a terrorist act from happening during King Salman’s visit to Malaysia recently,” he added.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar had said that four Yemeni militants were detained in Cyberjaya on Feb 26, days before the visit of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud’s to Malaysia.