IPOH – The Malaysian Border Control Agency (Aksem) will be placed under the Internal Security and Public Order Department of the Royal Malaysia Police, with approval from the cabinet.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the directive on the implementation of duties by Aksem personnel would be issued by the inspector-general of police.
“The staff to be absorbed under Aksem will be the responsibility of PDRM, not as before when we borrowed 50, 100 employees from other agencies, when in the end, orders could not reach the staff at the bottom.
“PDRM will reorganise personnel to determine who should be placed under Aksem and whether there is a need for a certain battalion to be placed in the peninsula or to look after the borders in Sabah and Sarawak,” he told reporters after officiating the Home Ministry’s Malaysia Prihatin programme today.
Hamzah said PDRM would also be using new and more sophisticated technology at border checkpoints, and would carry out border controls physically in areas where the use of technology is not possible.
“We will strategise accordingly with the deployment of PDRM personnel. The order will be issued by the IGP,” he added.
Hamzah also said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador had been told to submit a full report on his allegations that a cartel in PDRM and an internal movement among young PDRM officers were plotting to take him down.
He added that he had contacted the IGP yesterday and asked Hamid to clarify the matter, as well as to submit a full report to the Police Force Commission on the allegation.
“I said yesterday that the IGP had announced the matter in public. and I as the minister was not informed of it earlier.
“So I contacted him and asked for a full report, so we can make a clearer announcement to the people. I do not want such vague issues to create an unhealthy perception,” he said.
In the “Sinar Live with the IGP” programme on Wednesday, Hamid claimed there was a movement among young PDRM officers plotting his downfall.
The IGP alleged the movement is the same group behind the cartel in PDRM aimed at dominating the country’s security forces for their own interests. – Bernama, March 19, 2021
