Police have denied there was a health SOPs breach when Gerakan visited the Sentul district police headquarters in the capital to deliver aid to the families of policemen today.
This is after allegations that the aid handover was considered an event.
Formal and informal events are prohibited under the current movement control order SOPs.
"It was not a gathering. It was just a simple handover of donations [..]. we followed the exact SOPs," Sentul police chief Beh Eng Lai told Malaysiakini.
He added that NGOs and MPs are known to frequently hand out donations to the public.
Malaysiakini has contacted Gerakan for comment.
Photos of the aid handover (above) showed Gerakan president Dominic Lau and two other party members handing out bags of daily necessities.
It also showed Lau and Beh speaking from a rostrum.
Beh said there were "not many" recipients for the aid.
"(Some of the recipients) are quite poor, some are disabled, single mothers.
"So the aid is meant to give some motivation (to them) on humanitarian grounds, that's all," he said.
The current total lockdown is in force from June 1 to June 14.
It is meant to curb the spread of Covid-19 after a major surge in infections over the last month. - Mkini
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