"This is not perception but it is reality. From the aspect of arrests, most of the offenders were released from the repealed EO," he said when answering a supplementary question from Azmin Ali (PKR - Gombak) during question time in Parliament Wednesday.
Azmin had asked if a recent statement by the Government that the crime rate had gone up was used as the basis to consider for a new law to replace the repealed EO.
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