Sabah Immigration has gone biometric
I really don't like the PTI in Sabah. How can we prevent them from entering to our beloved country of Sabah? Although there is a few illegal imihgrant in Tamparuli but in other area such as Sandakan, Keningau and Kota Kinabalu you cannot count it with finger. Huh We need to joint hand together to solve this problem... we must take action or our future generation will SUFFER!!!The Sabah Immigration Department has fully implemented a biometric system at all border entry points in the State in an effort to check cross-border crime.
Its Director, Mohammad Mentek, said the installation of the system was completed in April and a dry run was conducted in May.
"The system is commissioned starting this month and the use of fingerprint scanning system is running smoothly," he told reporters here, Wednesday.
Mohammad said the adoption of the biometric system could help prevent cross-border crime as it would provide information on foreign nationals, who overstay and use false passports, and their entry and exit points.
Meanwhile, four masterminds of human trafficking and immigrant smuggling activities, including a Filipino woman, were arrested in an operation mounted by the Sabah Immigration Department here last Sunday.
Mohammad said the four masterminds comprised two Philippine nationals and two Malaysian men aged 39 and 40.
He said 21 Filipino women were also detained in the five-hour operation which began at 9.45pm. Two of the masterminds were nabbed with seven Filipino women at a hotel here, while the other two were arrested with 14 other women in a raid on a house in Batu 7.
He said only one of the Filipino women possessed a valid passport, while the rest did not have any identification documents.
Mohammad said the four masterminds had been remanded for a week to facilitate the investigation under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons and Anti-Smuggling of Migrants Act 2007, while the women were also being held for further action under the Immigration Act.
He said initial investigation found that the suspects had smuggled in the women to Sandakan by promising them jobs as nightclub singers and waitresses in Sabah, Labuan and Sarawak.
"The masterminds were also believed to have provided the women with all travel requirements, including forged passports.
"We also believe that Sandakan is just a transit district before the women were deployed elsewhere," he added.
Story By: Harry George
Sources From: Imigrestion Department, Daily Express
Picture: Google Image
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