16-Year-Old Chinese National Caught in Vice Raid

27 March 2010
George Town

Police raided a hotel in Butterworth and found a 16-year-old Chinese national and four other Chinese women naked with men. In the operation code named Ops Noda and Ops Pintas, police seized used condoms, antiseptic mouthwash, lubricants, towels, tissues, RM3,512 cash and record books on the earnings from their sexual activities.

All of them had their statements taken at the Bukit Mertajam police station. The men were released, but a 39-year-old hotel caretaker who was caught with the earnings was remanded under section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

After the raid on Thursday night, police sent the 16-year-old girl, suspected to be a victim of sex trafficking, to a home shelter in Kuala Lumpur. Her case was being investigated under Section 14 of the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2007. The other four women, aged between 26 and 28 years, have been remanded for 14 days under the Immigration Act for violation of social visit passes.

Police said a vice syndicate has been operating for a few months and collected almost RM100,000 monthly. Customers were charged RM200.

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National Crime Rate Down 13.2 Percent – IGP Musa

25 March 2010
Kuala Lumpur

Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan reported that the national crime index has fallen by 13.2% for the first two months of this year due to increased police presence in hotspots and assistance from the Civil Defence Department and Rela.

He said this is in line with the force’s target to reduce crime by 20% at the end of this year in accordance to the National Key Result Areas set earlier. 20,000 police officers have been assigned to the hotspots and 90 mobile police stations have been set up for providing presence and operations.

Marine police is now made up of 2,470 officers deployed over 39 bases that help to monitor the Malaysian coast. 25 are in the Peninsular while 14 are in Sabah and Sarawak.

Musa said in 2009, the marine police conducted 3,752 arrests and seized illegal goods worth RM34 million. This was compared to 4,128 arrests RM30 million worth of goods seized the year before.

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Newborn Baby in Coma After Alleged Abuse

23 March 2010
Port Dickson

A one-month-old baby is hospitalized with brain haemorrhage and in a coma at the Hospital Kuala Lumpur while his parents, from Taman PD Utama, had been detained by police on 11 March 2010 for alleged abuse of the baby.

The 28-year-old male suspect, who works as a wireman, is believed to have had an affair with an Indonesian woman.

Port Dickson OCPD Superintendent Baljeet Singh said a man, who claimed to be the victim’s babysitter, had rushed the boy to the Port Dickson Hospital on 11 March 2010, indicating that the baby was four months old and had a fever.

The baby was later transferred to the pediatric critical care ward at Hospital Kuala Lumpur when his condition deteriorated. Doctors who treated the baby reported to the police that there were signs of internal bleeding caused by violent shaking.

When Baljeet and his officers went to the suspect’s home, they found six other children, aged between 1 and 13 years, and placed them under the Welfare Department’s care.

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