Malaysian Police Officials have announced that they’ll be cracking down on all forms of illegal gambling regardless if their online or land based. The Anti-Gambling Police Force which was specifically created for these kinds of crimes is setting up different raid plans for various illegal gambling raids. Each one of the raids will take place at the same time allowing for the police force to hit them hard at once. This in return won’t allow for the other gambling rings to pack up their operations and move to another location.
The new Anti-Gambling task force is focusing on land based and online gambling rings, their plans set of be enforced within the next coming weeks. The police officials have noted that the majority of the gambling raids will be taking place in lower valued neighborhoods and have noted that they will be protecting the low wage residents who live in that area. The unit during their raids will also be looking for information on illegal weapon trafficking, secret societies and drug trafficking rings as well.
The hope is that within one big sweep of these raids they’ll be able to abolish any online or land based gambling rings with the potential to gain or shut down any other illegal gambling activities as well. The leader of the new task force Mr. Hamidi commented on the future raids, “I know the task that we have set up is pretty difficult but it not an impossible one. We don’t want low income citizens to be effected by the different illegal activities taking place in their neighborhoods. These raids will help protect the youth in that area for multiple reasons.”