MCO violations: 746 issued compound notices, eight remanded on Sunday (May 30)

PUTRAJAYA: Police have arrested 754 individuals nationwide for various standard operating procedures violations on Sunday (May 30).

Among the offences committed were no physical distancing (145), failure to register details when entering premises (109), not wearing face masks (168), ferrying excess passengers (74) and other offences (258).

Of those arrested on Sunday, 746 individuals were slapped with compound notices and eight were remanded.

The task force monitoring SOP compliance checked 68,740 premises including supermarkets, restaurants, factories, banks, government offices and hawkers.

Also checked were wet markets/pasar tani, places of worship, recreational places and sea transport terminals.

On Ops Benteng, Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said enforcement authorities nabbed 38 illegal immigrants and seized seven land vehicles.

"Authorities also sighted the presence of 200 vessels in Malaysian waters during nine sighting activities carried out on May 30," he said on Monday (May 31).

Ismail Sabri added that 738 individuals arrived in Malaysia on Sunday and all were sent for quarantine at government-designated stations.

Since July 24 last year, a total of 215,492 individuals have returned to the country and quarantined at 78 hotels and nine training institutes.