Cops beef up forces at Thailand border
KUALA LUMPUR: Additional armoured vehicles and personnel from the Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department ( NCID) have been deployed to the Malaysia-Thailand border beginning yesterday.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador said the measure was to strengthen the country’s border.
The move is in response to the second attack that left a General Operations Force (GOF) personnel dead and another wounded.
He said teams from the CID and NCID as well as 69 Commando Unit personnel would be mobilised to the border area to cripple smuggling activities.
“The swift action by police has successfully thwarted drug trafficking and smuggling activities. The Kedah police seized more than 100kg of heroin estimated to be worth RM10 million yesterday evening,” he said.
In Kangar, the main suspect is among four who has been remanded for seven days from yesterday.
Perlis police chief Datuk Surina Saad said one of the four suspects is a Thai and the other three are locals. The main suspect is a 45-year-old Malaysian.
This brings the number of people who have been remanded over the shooting incident to 19.
Earlier, 15 individuals, including three Thais were separately ordered
to be remanded for four days to assist investigations.
The order to remand the four until Dec 2 was issued by the Kangar magistrate’s court registrar Monica Joseph Gaisah yesterday upon police request.
Meanwhile,
the
Non
Pensionable Malaysian Armed Forces Veterans Association has urged the government to expedite the construction of a border wall to combat smuggling activities along the Perlis and Kedah border with Thailand.
Its president Datuk Ismail Abidin said a wall was the best way to reduce the risk of Malaysian security personnel being exposed to the threat of being shot by smugglers.
“A border wall will also help to curb smuggling activities at the national border,” he said yesterday. – Bernama