KUALA LUMPUR: City police have identified four areas within Kuala Lumpur as crime hot-spots, based on statistics and reports received from the public.
City police chief Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said police have begun conducting special operations in Selayang in cooperation with several other enforcement agencies like the Immigration Department and anti-narcotics team to clean up these crime hotspots so residents would feel more secure about their environment.
Raids conducted from Jan 1 near the Selayang wholesale market have so far resulted in 402 detained for offences, such as drug possession and having invalid travel documents.
Zulkifli said similar operations have been planned for Wangsa Maju, Sentul and Cheras. He assured the raids would continue until the crime rate in target areas dropped.
In all, 402 people were detained in the special operations at the Selayang wet market.
They comprised 349 males and 53 women, the majority of them being Myanmar nationals.
They included 70 suspected drug pushers.
The others were held for failure to produce travel documents and possession of invalid travel documents.
Selayang drug mart
KUALA LUMPUR: Selayang's status as a crime hotspot had been exposed by The Malay Mail, following an incident where a Myanmar national drug pusher at the wet market was shot by police on Dec 6.
The Paper That Cares exposed the criminal activities at the wet market at Selayang where our probe revealed drug activities to be at "alarming levels".
Residents around the market area, and workers and customers we spoke to shared the same concern and agreed criminal activity in the area was serious.
In our Dec 7 frontpage report, Kuala Lumpur Narcotics Crime Investigation Department chief ACP Kang Chez Chiang had said immigrants used the market and empty shoplots there as a haunt for drug activities.
Kang had said the Selayang wet market had become a druginfested area with the growing population of immigrants from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia, causing uneasiness among the residents.
From January to October last year, 926 people of various nationalities, including Malaysians, were found involved in drug activities there.
The majority of the suspects were drug addicts.
The foreign drug syndicates were usually small groups comprising their respective communities, mainly Myanmar and Achenese from Indonesia.
Each group was headed by a pusher who received his supply from a bigger player elsewhere, who could either be a local or the immigrant's fellow countryman.
The popular drugs at the wet market in Selayang were heroin and ganja, followed by ketamine.
They were sold between RM100 and RM350 for a small packet.
Kang had said police were keeping the Selayang wet market under constant watch with the help of the Immigration Department and the People's Volunteer Corps (Rela), and checks on illegal immigrants were being conducted from time to time.
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