The Star, Tuesday April 14, 2015
KAJANG: A “Bukit Aman policeman”
burst into the home of seven Bangladeshis, warning them that their place
had been surrounded by four officials.
He told the migrant workers that he would shoot them unless they handed over their passports and valuables.
The Bangladeshis’ initial shock slowly turned to chuckles when they realised the so-called “officer” was a scrawny man brandishing a knife instead of a gun. He was not in police uniform.
And, he had only one leg.
The Bangladeshis then pretended to comply with the bogus officer
while they called the real police, who arrived to arrest the one-legged
man in Kampung Simpang Balak on Saturday night.
The “policeman” turned out to be a 34-year-old drug-taking grave digger and was a familiar face to police here.
“He was recently arrested for a house break-in but we let him out on bail because his amputated left leg was swelling. We let him go and then he goes and does this,” said Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab.
He said the man lost his leg during an accident. He was now wearing a prosthetic leg.
The man, he said, limped into the Bangladeshis’ house at about 10.30pm on April 11, claiming to be an officer and demanded that the Bangladeshis hand over their belongings, money and handphones.
Police arrived to arrest the man when he was still waiting for the workers to “find their money”.
The man is being investigated for impersonating a policeman and for robbery. He has been remanded until today.
ACP Abdul Rashid noted a trend of drug addicts posing as police officers to prey on migrant workers.
Another case was recorded where two men posed as officers to rob a Bangladeshi mechanic in Taming Jaya on Sunday night. The suspects brought the worker to his dwellings near the mechanic shop where he worked and hit him, before asking him to hand over RM900.
Luckily, the victim’s roommates came back from work and managed to subdue the two suspects before handing them over to police.
The suspects, age 25 and 29, tested positive for syabu.
Bukit Aman statistics estimate that at least 40% of the street crime are because of drug addicts.
He told the migrant workers that he would shoot them unless they handed over their passports and valuables.
The Bangladeshis’ initial shock slowly turned to chuckles when they realised the so-called “officer” was a scrawny man brandishing a knife instead of a gun. He was not in police uniform.
And, he had only one leg.
The “policeman” turned out to be a 34-year-old drug-taking grave digger and was a familiar face to police here.
“He was recently arrested for a house break-in but we let him out on bail because his amputated left leg was swelling. We let him go and then he goes and does this,” said Kajang OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rashid Abdul Wahab.
He said the man lost his leg during an accident. He was now wearing a prosthetic leg.
The man, he said, limped into the Bangladeshis’ house at about 10.30pm on April 11, claiming to be an officer and demanded that the Bangladeshis hand over their belongings, money and handphones.
Police arrived to arrest the man when he was still waiting for the workers to “find their money”.
The man is being investigated for impersonating a policeman and for robbery. He has been remanded until today.
ACP Abdul Rashid noted a trend of drug addicts posing as police officers to prey on migrant workers.
Another case was recorded where two men posed as officers to rob a Bangladeshi mechanic in Taming Jaya on Sunday night. The suspects brought the worker to his dwellings near the mechanic shop where he worked and hit him, before asking him to hand over RM900.
Luckily, the victim’s roommates came back from work and managed to subdue the two suspects before handing them over to police.
The suspects, age 25 and 29, tested positive for syabu.
Bukit Aman statistics estimate that at least 40% of the street crime are because of drug addicts.
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