KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 496 foreigners employed illegally as security guards were detained in a two-week period last month.
The operation, involving the Home Ministry, police, Immigration and National Registration Department was carried out between Nov 1 and 17.
"The operation was carried out continuously to nab illegal foreign security guards and to monitor offences committed by security guard companies nationwide," Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi said in a statement.
He said the ministry had also issued 30 show-cause letters to security guard companies found to have flouted the Private Agencies Act 1971.
He said since 2010, the ministry had cancelled the licences of 43 companies for various offences under the act. - Bernama
