PETALING JAYA: An investigation board will probe whether the arrests of two Singaporean women were done according to the law, said Immigration director-general Datuk Alias Ahmad.
He said the board would also check whether the incident stemmed from the carelessness of officials involved.
“The board will make recommendations for the department to carry out,” he said in a statement yesterday.
He said an investigation report was expected within a week and that the department was taking this issue seriously.
The board, known as the Malaysian Immigration Special Investigation Board (LPKIM), will start work today and is headed by department deputy director-general (control) Datuk Raja Mohd Raja Ismail.
Other board members include the department enforcement division director Mohd Zamberi Abdul Aziz, and officers from the police, Prisons Department and detention depot departments.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the authorities would also look at the standard operational procedures involving those detained at checkpoints to determine if changes are needed.
“If the operating procedures do not meet current needs, then changes and amendments must be made based on the findings of the inquiry.
“It is wrong to say that the Immigration front-liners were involved. They (the women) were actually brought to the detention centre,” he said at the Parliament lobby yesterday.
The women had been arrested at the Sultan Iskandar Immigration checkpoint in Johor Baru on June 9.
It was reported that the women were allegedly detained at the Immigration checkpoint for several hours before being taken to the Pekan Nenas detention centre on June 9.
They were told to strip, perform 10 squats and jailed for the night before being released at about 5pm the following day.
Source: The Star Online
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