KUALA LUMPUR: The Home Affairs Ministry is preparing a comprehensive amendment to the 1953 Lockup Rules to ensure the management of lockups, detainees as well as the basic rights of detainees are improved in line with current needs and requirements.
The Ministry in a reply published on the Parliament's official website said this was among the measures taken by the police to curb the issue of deaths in custody.
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