Police: 11 have links to crime


Out on bail: Some of the PPS members walking out from the George Town District police headquarters after being released on police bail.

GEORGE TOWN: Eleven of the 156 Penang Voluntary Patrol (PPS) unit members detained have criminal records involving theft, robbery, drugs, triad-related offences and even homicide.

Penang police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Wira Abdul Rahim Hanafi said one of the PPS members, who had links to a secret society, was detained under the Emergency Ordinance before it was abolished.

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