End of an era: DCP Jaafar (left) bidding farewell to his officers after handing over his duties at the state police contingent headquarters in Seremban.
SEREMBAN: Just-retired state police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Jaafar Mohd Yusof vividly remembers the day death stared him in the face 30 years ago at the Kuantan prison.
Then a young officer with the Special Actions Unit, he was about to enter a room with then Prisons director-general Datuk Ibrahim Mohamed and another officer to negotiate with three Indonesian inmates who were holding a magistrate hostage.
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