Rude shock at Internet cafe
BY ROYCE CHEAHPETALING JAYA: Patrons and staff of an Internet cafe here thought it was a robbery when a raiding party burst in on them at midnight on Saturday.
“They were dressed like gangsters. I was afraid and thought we were being mugged,” said customer Jonathan Khoo, 19.
He claimed the seven men and two women in plainclothes were very rude in the way they dealt with the 46 patrons at the Netmaster Internet cafe in Damansara Jaya.
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The closed-circuit television screenshot from the Netmaster Internet Cafe in Damansara Jaya showing a group claiming to be the police collecting ICs from the patrons. |
“But what they produced was a yellowed piece of laminated paper which was difficult to read. They showed it very briefly to the patron and did not explain the purpose of their visit,” he said.
Khoo, a college student, said a scuffle broke out between the patron and members of the raiding party, and the patron was forced to kneel down and then handcuffed for being “difficult”.
One of them also lifted his jacket to reveal his gun tucked in his pants, to convince those at the Internet cafe that they were policemen.
Deputy OCPD Supt Abdul Rahman Ibrahim said the Narcotics Department had conducted an operation that day and that it followed standard procedures. However, he could not confirm if the team that raided the cafe was the one on the field that day.
cafe operator Fum Chen Foo said the “officers” were very rude and demanded that the closed-circuit TV cameras be turned off when they entered.
The “officers” also forced patrons to give them urine samples. “They also wanted to test the urine of two youngsters who were about 10 years old, and only after their fathers' arrival did they release them.”
“Furthermore, my cafe is a strictly no-smoking place and some of these 'officers' were puffing away,” she said.
Khoo said the two-hour ordeal ended when the “officers” finished testing the urine samples and returned the ICs to the patrons.
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