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Malaysian newspaper New Straits Times carried an exclusive Special Branch report that revealed “that a staggering 80 percent of the nation’s security personnel and law enforcement officers at Malaysian borders are corrupt” (June 03, 2015, p 03).
This was the outcome of ten years of covert, deep-cover surveillance and intelligence gathering at Malaysia’s border checkpoints and at different enforcement agencies throughout the country, including the Immigration Department, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, the Anti-Smuggling Unit (UPP) and the police’s General Operations Force.
Sources within the Special Branch told the newspaper that those involved were not only on the take but many were on the payroll of criminal syndicates dealing with drugs, weapons and even human smuggling. It is understood that the intel is labelled Category A1, meaning it is undisputed intelligence.
The Special Branch had disclosed that over the years, they did share crucial information with the said agencies – but on most occasions, they were not followed through, for reasons known only to these agencies that were fed intel.
And the Special Branch are not optimistic that this scandalous state of affairs would be reined in any time soon – indicating that corruption is so embedded in these institutions which are tasked with the country’s security and well-being.
Shame, shame, shame!
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