Fitting help: The Police Autism Centre at Pulapol has helped to ease the burden of parents on the force who have autistic children like Insp Azlina Shamsuddin. — Photos: AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star
THE arrest of an autistic man in 2018 for allegedly molesting a woman was a dark moment, not only for the man’s family but also for the police, which led to the force immediately formulating a set of new rules to deal with such cases.
What many didn’t know was that at the time the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) was already grappling with some of its own officers’ struggle to care for children on the autism spectrum.
