Police searching for political social gathering convoy marshals

Negeri Sembilan police are searching for 5 people appearing as convoy marshals.The group on bikes was recorded on video stopping visitors in Taman Desa Dahlia, Senawang, to permit a convoy of eight autos marked with the emblem of a Malaysian political social gathering.

In line with an announcement from Negeri Sembilan police chief Deputy Commissioner Ahmad Dzaffir Yusoff, the incident was detected by way of a video clip going viral on native social media. The riders are seen flying the flag of a political social gathering and stopping visitors on the visitors mild on the aforementioned location earlier this week.

Saying the motion is harmful to different street customers, Deputy Commissioner Ahmad Dzaffir stated police at the moment are tracing all drivers and riders concerned within the incident. “Their actions appearing as a marshal to regulate and cease visitors is an offence underneath Part 21(1) of the Police Act, 1967,” he stated.

Deputy Commissioner Ahmad Dzaffir defined such an offence is topic to a RM500 nice or a most six months jail, or each. “Per part 79(2) of the Highway Transport Act, 1987 regarding disregard of visitors indicators and instructions, any particular person committing an offence will be fined not lower than RM300 and no more than RM2,000,” he added.

In his assertion, Deputy Commissioner Ahmad Dzaffir urged political events to obey the street visitors legal guidelines within the marketing campaign interval main as much as the fifteenth Malaysian Normal Election (PRU15).