Harapkan pagar , pagar makan padi. 24 May 2012 RAWANG : Seven
policemen on crime prevention patrols were arrested on Tuesday night for
allegedly robbing three Nepali workers at an industrial estate here.
The policemen who are in their 20's and 30's are constables,
lance corporals and corporals.
It is learnt that the policemen who are members of the
General Operations Force based in Kuantan were brought in as reinforcement for
crime prevention in Selangor.
On Saturday at about 4am, the policemen broke up into two
groups before carrying out crime prevention patrols at the Sungai Tua
industrial estate.
It is also learnt that a team of four policemen had approached
a group of six Nepali workers who were returning home after work before
demanding to see their passports.
Sources said one of the cops then searched the Nepalis
before allegedly pocketing about RM300 he found on them and a handphone.
He also allegedly warned the Nepalis that he will return in
a week and meet them outside their workplace for more money.
The following day, the workers who were accompanied by a
senior staff member of the company they work for lodged a police report at the
Rawang police station.
Following the report, a police team initiated investigations
and raided a hotel in Selayang where the policemen were housed.
Yesterday, a policemen was remanded for a week to facilitate
the probe into the case while his six collegues were released after
interogations.
The six personnel were placed under the close supervision of
their superiors pending disciplinary action.The case has been classified as
robbery.
Selangor police CID chief SAC II Mohd Adnan Abdullah
confirmed the case.
However, he declined to comment on it claiming he did not
have full details of the case.
24 May 2012
Seven cops held over robbery
RAWANG: Seven policemen, including five from the General
Operations Force (GOF), were arrested for allegedly robbing a group of Nepalese
migrant workers on Saturday.
The suspects were arrested in two separate raids at the
Rawang police station and at a hotel in Gombak on Monday and the following day
following a report lodged by the victims.
Gombak police chief Assistant Commissioner Rahim Abdullah
said the GOF officers and two policemen from the Rawang station were alleged to
have been patrolling when they saw the group of Nepalese workers coming out of
a factory in Jalan Arang, Rawang, at 4am.
"The policemen conducted a search on the victims.
"Simultaneously, one of the GOF officers also did a
search and was alleged to have taken RM330 cash and a handphone from one of the
victims.
"The GOF officer was also alleged to have pointed a gun
at the head of one of the foreigners after the latter said that he did not do
anything wrong," he said.
Rahim added, following the report, police had immediately
instructed the victims to identify the suspects at the district police
headquarters yesterday.
The victims identified a 32-year-old suspect, who is a member
of the GOF Seventh Battalion based in Kuantan.
The suspect is being remanded for a week while the six
others were released on police bail.