KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 — All premises (offices, businesses, and shops), when dealing with the public, are requested to mandate each individual to open the face mask for identification purposes at the service counter.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said this is to facilitate police investigations for facial recognition in the event of any criminal incident at the location involved.
“We request people who carry out deliveries or any business to temporarily open their facemask for identification purposes. When wearing a mask, it is difficult to identify the face (of a person).
“The counter management can ask any individual to temporarily open the face mask for security reasons,” he said.
Rusdi was commenting on the incident of a fake bomb threat at the Tourism, Arts, and Culture Ministry in Putrajaya last week.
He was speaking at the handover of duties ceremony at the Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department (CID) between the former Kuala Lumpur CID Chief Datuk Habibi Majinji and his successor SAC Mohd Razali Mohd Idrus.
Habibi will take up the position of new Chief of Staff of Land Operations Eastern Sabah Security Command, replacing Datuk M. Chandrasekaran who passed away on June 1, while Razali was previously the Chief Assistant Director of Forensics Bukit Aman.
Rusdi said installing closed-circuit cameras at counters that focus on individual faces is also highly encouraged to improve the clarity of the face recognition process.
On the fake bomb threat, he said the police are still conducting a detailed investigation and are in the final process of distributing a (photo-fit) sketch of the suspect.
Meanwhile, when asked about the death threat received by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, he said they have a lead regarding the case, but it is doubtful, and the investigation is still ongoing.
— Bernama
