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- Police want security firms to review SOP on transporting cash
- Dr Chua: MCA willing to give up seats to BN parties
- Missing executive found dead in Kelmin forest
| Police want security firms to review SOP on transporting cash Posted: 25 Aug 2012 07:34 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: The police have suggested that security companies review their standard operating procedures (SOP) when transporting cash to automated teller machines (ATM). Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said the move was advisable following the recent spate of ATM break-ins, which were believed to be masterminded by staff of security companies. "Security companies should review their SOPs on transferring cash and tighten measures to make it harder for the robbers, because they know the system," he told Bernama. Saying police would meet the association of banks soon to discuss tighter security measures, he advised them to place ATMs at crowded spots and not at secluded locations. Meanwhile, Securiforce executive director Datuk Shaheen Mirza Habib, denied that any of his company personnel were involved in such activities. "Each time a security guard opens the ATM, the password is changed and provided by another personnel. How can they break-in?" he said. Shaheen Mirza, who is Security Services Association of Malaysia president, added that staff appointed to transport cash had clean background in order to prevent breach of trust. "At least six months to a year is needed before a security guard is appointed to 'Cashing Transit' and during this time, the Home Affairs Ministry and the police are also involved in evaluating them," he added. Emphasising that banks should be responsible for ATM security, he said, banks should station 24-hour security guards and install the best state of the art security systems to prevent such incidents. Fifteen ATM robberies have been reported so far this year, amounting to almost RM2 million in losses. - Bernama BERNAMA |
| Dr Chua: MCA willing to give up seats to BN parties Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:51 AM PDT IPOH: MCA is willing to give up seats it has contested all along to its Barisan Nasional (BN) partners on the condition they are confident of winning them and get the nod of BN chairman, its president Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said. He said MCA had total confidence in Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's leadership and that the party was willing to forego seats it stood no chance of winning. "As for me, there is no need to discuss seat distribution, we have confidence in the wisdom of the BN leadership under Najib. "I am stating openly that MCA will not demand seats that we will not win or are not confident of winning. "We are not a component that likes to "syok sendiri" (likes self flattery)"," he told reporters after meeting hawkers at the Gunung Rapat market here. He was commenting on reports that MCA's BN partner Gerakan stood a better chance of winning the Gopeng parliamentary and Malim Nawar state seats, which are traditionally MCA seats, in the next general election. The report came about following an earlier report in an English daily on Aug 14 which said that MCA would be contesting the Puchong parliamentay seat which had been contested by Gerakan in the last two elections. On this, Dr Chua said the two parties need not swap seats if each was confident they were more "winnable". "I am of the opinion that whether a candidate of a certain party can win or not depends on some criterias, firstly the division (of the party) must be active, second, do they have sufficient members and third, is their election machinery up to the task? "Fourth, are they united, committed and willing to go the extra mile to ensure the BN candidate wins and lastly, which party the voters prefer, whether it is MCA, Gerakan, Umno or MIC. That is why we prefer to leave it to the (BN) leadership to decide," he said. As such, he said, MCA was confident that Najib, who is also Prime Minister, had many sources of feedback to decide which of the parties would be the most suited (for a particular seat). Following the visit, Dr Chua also announced that Perak state executive councillor Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon would be holding discussions with the hawkers at the market on upgrading the facility using a RM500,000 allocation that would be made available by the Housing and Local Government Ministry. - Bernama |
| Missing executive found dead in Kelmin forest Posted: 25 Aug 2012 04:40 AM PDT DUNGUN: An advertising executive, who went missing after venturing into the Kelmin forest in Pasir Raja here to take photographs of the environment, was found dead near a river by a search and rescue team. Dungun police chief Supt Dahlan Mohd Nor said the body of Harry Nian, 40, from Selangor, was found at 9.40am Saturday by the bank of the Kelmin River here. "The victim is believed to have been dead for three to four days. "He was said to have gone alone to the forest located about 30 kilometres from Kampung Kuala Jengai on Aug 18. "He is understood to have entered the area a number of times to take photographs," he told Bernama. Dahlan said police received a missing person report on Friday and immediately mounted the search operation with the assistance of other departments. He said the body had been sent to Dungun Hospital for a post mortem. - Bernama |
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