KOTA BARU – Kelantan police will step up security along the Malaysia-Thailand border in the state following the shootout with smugglers in Perlis that resulted in the death of a General Operations Force (GOF) member yesterday.
Kelantan police chief Shafien Mamat said today all personnel at the border posts in the state have been advised to be extra cautious.
“In enforcing the law, we have to equip ourselves well. Alhamdulillah, border security in Kelantan is under control and the agencies deployed there are cooperating,” he told reporters after attending a meeting of the Kelantan Special Security Committee at Kota Darulnaim, here.
In yesterday’s incident in Perlis, police corporal Baharuddin Ramli, 54, of the elite Senoi Praaq GOF unit was killed and corporal Norihan a/l Tari, 39, was critically injured in a shootout with smugglers at the border near Padang Besar. The latter is currently receiving treatment at the Tuanku Fauziah Hospital in Kangar. – Bernama, November 25, 2020
