KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — The police will review the security level in the compound of Parliament to ensure yesterday’s disturbance will not recur although it was not under their jurisdiction.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Wira Mohammad Sabtu Osman said Parliament had its own security personnel guarding the area “but if things like this happens, we will review the security level”.
“Certainly in Parliament, there are enough security guards, assisted by the General Operations Force,” he told reporters here today.
A commotion broke out in Parliament compound yesterday when a group of people demanded an apology from DAP chairman Karpal Singh for using the word “celaka” (“damn”) on Umno Youth.
Several members of Parliament were also involved in the scuffle.
Asked to comment on allegations by the opposition that the police did not act to end the commotion, Sabtu said: “I don’t want to comment on this matter. Anyway, no police reports have been received so far from either side.”
On police investigations into the nude pictures scandal of Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Elizabeth Wong, he dismissed rumours that her ex-boyfriend Hilmi Malek was in Malaysia.
He said Hilmi was “the only witness most wanted by the police and not as a suspect” but the police had failed to contact him to have his statement taken.
“We have not received any confirmation that Hilmi has returned home and we have found no trace of his movement here. We believe Hilmi is still in Indonesia,” he said.
He refused to say whether the police would seek Interpol’s assistance to track Hilmi down. “What I can say is we are doing something to track him down.”
So far, the police had recorded statements from 14 individuals from the media and there was no necessity at present to ask Hilmi’s family members to give a statement, he said. — Bernama
Friday, February 27, 2009
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