Police beef up presence and step up patrols at KLIA


Joining forces: PGA personnel with a general duty policeman on their rounds at KLIA in the wake of the shooting incident that left one bodyguard injured. — MUHAMAD SHAHRIL ROSLI/The Star

PETALING JAYA: The police have doubled their staff strength and stepped up patrols at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) after Terminal 1 became the scene of a shooting last Sunday that left a bodyguard severely injured.

Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan said members of the General Operations Force (PGA) have been deployed to both terminals of the airport.

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