The traffic arm of the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) have about 1.75 million arrest warrants to serve to traffic offenders, and the cops aren’t in the mood to cut them any slack.
Although federal traffic police have toned down operations connected to the ongoing Ops Warta Khas, they will not be showing any mercy to errant motorists for whom arrest warrants have been issued.
Federal traffic police chief Senior Asst Comm Mohd Fuad Abdul Latiff urged motorists to come forward and settle their outstanding traffic summonses before they’re served with a warrant for arrest.
“During Ops Warta Khas between June 16 and 27, we managed to execute 16,486 arrest warrants. This is a 70% increase from the 9,698 executed two weeks before the launch of the operations,” he told The Star Online.
“In the first six months of this year, over 250,000 outstanding warrants of arrest were resolved,” he said at Bukit Aman yesterday.
Mohd Fuad also warned that although Ops Warta Khas operations have been sclaed back, errant motorists with outstanding arrest warrants have not been “forgotten”.
“If you are stopped at a road block and we find that you have an outstanding warrant, we will take action,” he said.
SAC Mohd Fuad said police were also preparing for Ops Selamat during the Hari Raya festive period.
“Ops Selamat will last 15 days beginning July 21,” he said, adding that the Inspector-General of Police would launch the campaign on July 17.
