Sarawak bars foreigners with drug records
KUCHING: Foreigners convicted of drug-related offences in Sarawak will not be allowed into the state again.
State anti-narcotics head Supt Moses Agat said police had submitted to state authorities the names of 155 Indonesians who will be refused entry into Sarawak.
“These are people who have been involved in drug-related offences, whose cases have been disposed of by the courts and who have served their sentences.
“We do not want them to come back to Sarawak,” he told a press conference.
Agat said police would also recommend to the relevant authorities to blacklist entertainment outlets with rampant drug cases.
In January and February this year, police inspected and raided 77 entertainment outlets throughout the state and seized 5kg of heroin, 98.6g of syabu, 2,307 psychotropic pills, 244 erimin-5 pills and 154 ecstasy pills.
In the same period, 317 drug-related cases with 540 arrests were made, an increase from 121 cases and 199 arrests in the corresponding period last year.
Source: The Star Online
Personal Comment:
It’s about time we enforce this. Maybe we could “extend” to nationals as well. Then again, if we do that we will infringe the freedom of movement clause in the FedCon.
