Plan to improve police’s sexual probe unit: Wan Azizah
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail will propose plans to improve the police’s Sexual, Women and Children’s Investigations Division’s (D11) facilities as it handles some 11,000 cases annually.
Wan Azizah, who is also the women, family and community development minister, said the volume of cases linked to the D11 department were the main trigger for the proposal.
“I will inform the minister (Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin) on how we want to upgrade the D11 unit.
“The police have told us that they have their own investigation and intelligence units to combat the problem but every parent should also take responsibility. It is not only the responsibility of the government. We have to approach this together,” she said during her visit to Bukit Aman D11’s offices yesterday.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Noor Rashid Ibrahim, who led the work visit, said police are constantly monitoring the situation.
Regarding cases such as the recent death of 11-month-old girl Nur Muazara Ulfa Mohammad Zainal, he said the parents could be charged should an element of carelessness is established.
“In any case that leads to death, an investigation will be opened.
“If there is such blatant carelessness then, of course, there is an offence. But it is up to the deputy public prosecutor to decide,” he said.