Police spent over RM22.8m during Lahad Datu intrusion

KUALA LUMPUR: The police had spent over RM22.8 million during the Lahad Datu intrusion by Sulu gunmen in Sabah last year, the Dewan Rakyat was told.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the cost was broken into 10 parts but refused to elaborate further saying that it is would be too much of a detail to disclose.
"The total amount of expenditure by the police during the Lahad Datu intrusion is RM22,875,800.45," he said in reply to Datuk Shamsul Anuar Nasarah (BN-Lenggong).
Shamsul had asked the ministry to state the total losses incurred in the Lahad Datu intrusion.
On Feb 12 last year, some 250 armed militants from the defunct Sulu Sultanate in South Philippines invaded east of Sabah in the outskirts of Lahad Datu, waging war and laying claim on the sovereignty of Sabah.
It was reportedly Malaysia's first ever foreign invasion since the Indonesian Confrontation about 50 years ago.
Wan Junaidi also said that there is a slight increase in the arrest of foreigners for various criminal activities this year compared to last year.
He said in 2013, there were 19,056 foreigners arrested from a total of 147,062 index criminal cases reported nationwide.
"This year from January to September, 14,143 foreigners arrested from a total of 97,393 index criminal cases reported nationwide.
"Other than being involved in index crimes, the flooding of foreigners also contribute to commercial crime rates. Their activities are done in series and syndicates," Wan Junaidi said responding to Shamsul's first of the question on foreign prisoners in Malaysia.
He said foreigners presence are also detected in drug deals and abuses, where a total of 4,930 foreigners have been nabbed for being involved in drug cases from January to October this year.