KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 6,559 officers and personnel will be deployed for the nationwide Ops Selamat starting tomorrow until Feb 13.
“We will take action on traffic infringements. We will also conduct crime prevention activities during the festivities,” said Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department (JSPT) director Comm Datuk Mohd Azman Ahmad Sapri.
Ops Selamat is being held during the Chinese New Year period.
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Comm Mohd Azman said JSPT was expecting an increase in the number of vehicles on the road in view of the balik kampung exodus.
“Personnel and officers will be placed at hotspots for traffic congestions and blackspots where accidents often occur,” he said during RTM’s Selamat Pagi Malaysia programme yesterday.
A total of 407 hotspots and 86 blackspots in states and districts have been identified, he said.
“For highways and expressways, 18 hotspots and 46 blackspots have been identified.”
Comm Mohd Azman said leave for officers and personnel involved in Ops Selamat had been frozen.
“The Crime Prevention Department and Community Safety Department through its mobile patrol unit (MPV) and motorcycle patrol unit as well as the Air Unit are also involved in the operation,” he said.
