Memperketatkan Kawalan Keselamatan Sempadan Negara

DENGAN keluasan perairan negara mencecah 614,000 kilometer persegi, menjadi antara cabaran besar kepada semua pihak yang menjaga perairan dan sempadan negara tidak kiralah sama ada Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia, Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia, Polis Marin dan sebagainya dalam mengekang kebolosan pendatang asing ke negara ini.

Perhatian serius perlu diberikan agar kebolosan pendatang asing tanpa izin (PATI) yang tidak diketahui status kesihatannya dapat dikekang sewaktu negara berhadapan dengan pandemik COVID-19 ini.

Kawalan keselamatan di sempadan negara meliputi laluan darat,laut dan udara perlu diperketat agar tragedi kebolosan sebuah bot hanyut yang membawa 202 pendatang asing dipercayai etnik Rohingya di 1.2 batu nautika barat daya Pantai Peranginan Resort Ritz-Carlton, Langkawi baru-baru ini tidak berulang.

Bagi meningkatkan tahap kawalan keselamatan sempadan negara dan memutuskan rantaian pandemik COVID-19 pembawaan pendatang asing dan bukan warganegara kerajaan dicadangkan supaya:-

• Meningkatkan penyelarasan operasi dan keselamatan di antara agensi penguatkuasaan melibatkan Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM), Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM), Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia dan Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia.

• Memanfaatkan keupayaan teknologi penggunaan pesawat tanpa pemandu (UAV) dan dron bagi memantau aktiviti di kawasan sempadan yang jauh dari pos kawalan keselamatan.

• Mengukuhkan kerjasama Pertahanan dengan negara-negara jiran terutamanya Singapura, Indonesia, Thailand dan Filipina bagi menggandakan rondaan lebih dan kawalan keselamatan di sempadan negara masing-masing.

•Kerajaan harus menyediakan peralatan seperti saringan kesihatan atau keselamatan kesihatan atau apa sahaja alat terkini bagi mengesan sebarang wabak asing dari masuk ke dalam negara.

•Rakyat juga harus menjadi mata dan telinga kerajaan untuk melaporkan sebarang kegiatan kemasukan PATI untuk menghindar penularan wabak ini.

Semoga dipermudahkan segala usaha pasukan dan agensi keselamatan di sempadan negara bagi mencegah rantaian pandemik Covid-19 dan jenayah rentas sempadan.

Dato’ Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Presiden UMNO

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Beef up surveillance along the border

WITH 614,000km of shoreline, it is a challenge for the authorities to manage it, irrespective of the naval, maritime enforcement authority, the marine police and others to stamp out any infiltration by legal immigrants into the country.

Serious attention must be given to halt them as their health status is not known when the country is in difficult time to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.

Security measures at air, sea and land need to be tightened as to avoid the recurrence of a boat suspected of carrying 202 Rohingya refugees stranded at the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Langkawi recently.

In order to step up security measures as a mean to break up the Covid-19 contagion among illegal immigrants and non-citizens, the government is urged to consider these options:

  • Step up security coordination among enforcement units involving PDRM, the army, the maritime authority and the Immigration Department.
  • Making use of unmanned surveillance aircraft (UAV) and drone to detect any form of infiltration at remote areas.
  • Strengthening defense cooperation with neighboring nations like Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines to enhance patrolling at their respective border.
  • The government can install healthcare equipment or any other devices to detect the spread of the pandemic from beyond our shores.
  • The people must act as in assisting the government with information on any kind of foreign infiltration at their respective area as to contain the pandemic.

May efforts undertaken by the authorities in containing the spread of Covid-19 and cross-border activities be successful.

Dato’ Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Presiden UMNO

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