MCA veep calls for return of elite police units scrapped in 2018
Lawrence Low says the specialist police units, disbanded by the PH-led government, should be brought back to strengthen the fight against organised crime.
An MCA leader, Lawrence Low, has called for the reinstatement of three elite police units that were disbanded in 2018, arguing their absence has hampered the fight against organized crime and drug syndicates. The special task force for anti-vice, gaming and gangsterism (Stagg), the special tactical intelligence narcotics group (Sting), and the special task force on organized crime (Stafoc) once served as formidable obstacles for organized crime syndicates, Low stated in a Facebook post.
The dissolution of these units by the then Pakatan Harapan-led government has left a significant gap in the police force's tactical and intelligence capabilities to combat organized crime and international drug cartels, Low asserted. Recent cases of Malaysians being arrested abroad for attempting to smuggle drugs, such as a pilot caught in Indonesia with 26kg of drugs, demonstrate that drug syndicates and organized crime groups are becoming increasingly brazen and unafraid of the existing enforcement system.
Therefore, reestablishing these three units is crucial now to bolster integrated tactical operations against drug trafficking syndicates, Low urged.
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