CIQs in need of urgent overhaul

Major entry point: It is learnt that the CIQs handle an average of 100,000 vehicles daily, including motorcycles.

JOHOR BARU: The two land checkpoints between Malaysia and Singapore need a major overhaul, especially its infrastructure inclu­ding gantries, speed breakers and CCTVs, say transport security sour­ces.

Almost all the booths at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar Customs, Immigration and Quarantine complex and Kompleks Abu Bakar at the Second Link do not have came­ras to monitor motorists and hundreds of Immigration staff at work there.