250 squad members arrested after Merdeka march
GEORGE TOWN: Police hauled up some 250 personnel of the allegedly illegal Voluntary Patrol Squad (PPS) immediately after their march past in the Penang Merdeka celebrations at the Esplanade here this morning.
The PPS members were taken to the Northeast District police headquarters in Jalan Patani.
Northeast police chief Mior Faridalatrash Wahid said the PPS was being investigated under Section 41 of the Societies Act over an allegation that it is an unregistered organisation.
The Registrar of Societies (ROS), the Inspector General of Police and Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar have all declared PPS an illegal outfit.
Penang police received instructions from Bukit Aman to arrest all PPS members today.
But Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng at a PPS event in Komtar has remained defiant, declaring the squad as a legal state body and announcing that his government would provide legal assistance to arrested PPS members.
Last night a Molokov cocktail was thrown into the compound of Lim’s residence in Jalan Pinhorn.
No one was injured and no property was damaged in the attack.
Police are investigating whether the attack was linked to their probe on PPS.
Some 16 police reports have been lodged against PPS nationwide after some squad members allegedly assaulted a social activist in Air Itam on Aug 17.
Established four years ago, PPS has 10,000-members, 59.6% of whom are Chinese, 32% Malays, 9.7% Indians and 0.4% others.
The PPS members were taken to the Northeast District police headquarters in Jalan Patani.
Northeast police chief Mior Faridalatrash Wahid said the PPS was being investigated under Section 41 of the Societies Act over an allegation that it is an unregistered organisation.
The Registrar of Societies (ROS), the Inspector General of Police and Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar have all declared PPS an illegal outfit.
Penang police received instructions from Bukit Aman to arrest all PPS members today.
But Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng at a PPS event in Komtar has remained defiant, declaring the squad as a legal state body and announcing that his government would provide legal assistance to arrested PPS members.
Last night a Molokov cocktail was thrown into the compound of Lim’s residence in Jalan Pinhorn.
No one was injured and no property was damaged in the attack.
Police are investigating whether the attack was linked to their probe on PPS.
Some 16 police reports have been lodged against PPS nationwide after some squad members allegedly assaulted a social activist in Air Itam on Aug 17.
Established four years ago, PPS has 10,000-members, 59.6% of whom are Chinese, 32% Malays, 9.7% Indians and 0.4% others.
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