(From left) Penang MMEA director Capt Hamizan Harun, Mohd Aliyas, ABF South East Asia regional director Commander Chris Waters and ABF First Secretary (Malaysia & Brunei) Insp Uriah Turner during the ceremony to open the Redback XII Operation in Gelugor.
THE number of maritime crimes such as piracy and robbery has decreased in the Straits of Malacca, which was once deemed a war risk zone, thanks to the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA).
Its deputy director Rear Admiral Datuk Mohd Aliyas Hamdan said in 2004, there were more than 300 maritime crime cases but in 2009, it was zero.
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