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KUALA LUMPUR: Police are tracking about 400 residents of Medan 88 in Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, Sepang, who did not return home after it was announced that the area will be placed under the Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO), effective yesterday .
Chief Minister (Security) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the matter (for the police to locate the residents) was settled at the special meeting of the National Security Council (MKN).
He said police would apprehend any resident leaving the area as they did for those at the Selangor mansion here, which was placed under EMCO in April.
“When the Selangor Mansion area was placed under the EMCO, many foreign workers left the site and we managed to locate them one by one.
“We also issue arrest warrants against them and this time it will be easier as there are employers helping them by using buses to get their workers out (from the Medan 88 EMCO area),” he said at a press conference on Conditional Movement Control Order (CMCO) at the Ministry of Defense here today.
Ismail Sabri said that not only will action be taken against foreign workers but also against errant employers.
“This is because they can endanger other people’s lives and make it difficult for authorities to track them down,” he said.
Called Today reported that the Sepang District Disaster Management Committee had sought the help of the police in locating some 400 residents of Medan 88 in Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, Sepang, who did not return home after receiving information that they would settle barbed wire in the area for the EMCO implementation.
The committee’s chairman, Mohamad Zain A. Hamid, said they were informed of this by housemates or relatives of those who did not return home upon learning that the area would come under the control of EMCO.
In another development, Ismail Sabri said employers could submit requests to bring their stranded foreign domestic servants back to the country, though approval is subject to the Immigration Department.
“Approval will only be given to people with emergencies, such as caring for sick parents or if they have disabled children who were previously cared for by maids,” he said. – Called
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