PUTRAJAYA: The Government will not push to reintroduce preventive detention to deal with the recent rise in organised crime, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
The ministry, he said, would stand with Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail – who recently declared he would not support any move to reinstate preventive detention – but noted that the country still needed a law to clamp down on gangsters and serious crime.
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