KOTA KINABALU: Eight of the
20 police districts in Sabah are currently headed by Sabah-born police
officers, according to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Haji Yusop.
He said three of them are
heading Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and Tawau Police Districts each with the rank
of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), while the rest are in Keningau,
Kinabatangan, Papar, Semporna and Sipitang each with the rank of Deputy
Superintendent of Police (DSP).
In terms of ethnic
background, he said two of them are Dusun, while another two Kadazan, two
Malays, one Murut and a Bajau.
He said this in reply to
Ranau MP Datuk Siringan Gubat who asked the Home Minister in the Dewan Rakyat
on the number of Sabahan police officers appointed to head the police districts
in the State and their racial breakdown.
Siringan, in his response to
this, said the number of Sabahans appointed to the said post was not
satisfactory considering that it is already 49 years since Malaysia was formed
and thus more Sabahans should be holding the post right now.
To this, Abu Seman said the
police always want, if possible, as many as possible those with qualifications
to hold the said post.
"Actually in our
appointment of OCPD or District Police Chiefs it is not based on the race,
ethnic groupor location. What is more important is the level of experiences,
academic qualification, work performance as well as skills," he said.
"So what we see from
the number of police officers and personnel from Sabah, we give them a lot of
exposure at the big cities like Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru and so on. And when
they already have experiences and skills we can place them in Sabah," he
added.
He said the police do not
care from which state an officer or personnel comes from in terms of rank
promotion, citing as example Sabah-born Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin who is
presently the Director of Criminal Investigation Department in Bukit Aman.
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