The home ministry has been urged to reveal the name of the security firm whose rogue guard shot dead a bank officer during a robbery in Subang Jaya on Wednesday.
PAS information chief Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (pic) today said that there were too many questions and doubts surrounding the company which had its licence revoked following the incident.
"What is the ministry's reason to keep the name of the firm a secret? It is obvious that it has become a threat to the safety of the people because of their recklessness," he said.
Norazita Abu Talib, 37, was shot once in the face with a pump-gun at the Ambank branch in USJ Sentral, Subang Jaya on Wednesday. The guard escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Norazita, a mother of two, had opened the door to the vault when she was shot.
Yesterday, deputy secretary-general Datuk Alwi Ibrahim announced that the security firm's operating licence had been revoked. However, he refused to give details of the company.
"They had failed to comply with several conditions.
"The security firm failed to carry out proper vetting on the background of the suspect. He should have been vetted by the ministry. In this case, not only was the suspect not vetted by the security firm or the ministry, but he was allowed to carry and use a firearm.
"Also, there are reports that the suspect used a fake identity card when he applied for the job," he said.
According to Alwi, there were 751 licensed security companies in Malaysia, although only 125 of them had been issued permits to use firearms. He also said the ministry was doing an audit of all the security companies in Malaysia and it was about 90% complete.
Tuan Ibrahim today said he was perplexed by the security firm's lax attitude in checking the background of its employees.
"If this man could get a job with the firm using a fake IC, I wonder how many more guards working for the company have fake ICs as well?" he asked, adding that there was nothing to stop security firms from resorting to illegal ways after the ministry completes its audit.
"If this audit was consistently done, the ministry would have been able to detect security guards with fake identifications much earlier."
It was not enough, Tuan Ibrahim said, for the ministry to just revoke its licence.
"This is why PAS is urging the home ministry to reveal the company's name as a warning to other firms to follow the law," he said.
"The ministry also has to check if there are any firearms missing from these companies just like how police lost their weapons in the toilets."
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