SIBU - Police here discovered to their shock that two security companies allowed their guards to carry ‘illegal firearms’ while they were on duty in two banks.
In a security check on the two aged 55 and 60 yesterday afternoon, they were found carrying shotguns licensed for hunting and agricultural purposes, and not for security in the bank.
Police seized 13 bullets from the guards.
Sibu police chief ACP Shafie Ismail confirmed the two cases, saying they had arrested the guards and seized their guns for probes under the Firearms Act.
As they have just started investigations, which the police view seriously, he would only reveal the details once fully probed.
In the one-and-a-half hour operation beginning at 12.55pm, a police team led by Inspectors Heng Kok How and Fauzi checked on the guards in two banks at Kampung Dato Road for security purposes.
The team found the two holding the shot guns in a peculiar manner – they are hired by the two security companies to work in the banks, and they had to bring in their own hunting guns.
The police said the guns belonging to the security guards were licensed for hunting and agricultural purposes; the
banks did not supply them with licensed guns for security in the banks.
banks did not supply them with licensed guns for security in the banks.
However, they have not confirmed whether it was a condition set by the security companies for their hired watchmen to bring their own guns to work.
The two were arrested and taken back for further probe yesterday afternoon. After recording their statements, the police released them on bail.
Security men carrying guns on duty in banks caught national attention recently after a bank officer Norazita, 37, was shot dead by her bank’s security guard while she was opening the vault at its strong room in Jalan USJ Central 2 in Subang Jaya (in West Malaysia) recently.
In the heist, the woman was shot in the face at point-blank range by the killer guard armed with a pump-action shotgun at 6.18pm.
The rogue guard then escaped with RM450,000.
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