Shuhaily to return to police force, says Saifuddin

Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) director-general Shuhaily Zain will return to the police force, home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said today.

He said the decision to end Shuhaily’s secondment to AKPS and return him to the police force was made last week.

Shuhaily, the former head of Bukit Aman’s criminal investigation department, was seconded to AKPS as its director-general on July 1 last year.

“He is a police officer seconded to AKPS… So we are returning him to the police force,” Saifuddin told reporters at an event here.

Shuhaily was charged in the Sepang magistrates’ court on Oct 21 with assaulting two policemen at KLIA last month.

Inspector-General of Police Khalid Ismail said yesterday that legal advice had been sought from the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) over Shuhaily’s tenure at AKPS. The matter was also referred to the Police Force Commission for regulatory review.

Khalid said Shuhaily’s two-year appointment as head of the border agency was a formal secondment from the police that received the consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and any move to terminate the secondment would require the king’s consent.