GEORGE TOWN: Penang police identified 11 members of the outlawed Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) with prior criminal records, with one member involved in secret society activities before.
State police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi said out of the 11, four tested positive for drug use.
“Some of them had prior criminal convictions for attempted murder, theft, and one member was under the Emergency Ordinance,” he said in a press conference at the Northeast district police headquarters here today.
Abdul Rahim added that the 156 PPS members detained will be remanded for one more day beginning today.
“This includes the PPS chief, Phee Boon Poh,” he said.
Abdul Rahim also denied the state government's claim that it had sent a list of PPS members to the police for vetting.
"No such thing, I have not received a single name to be vetted," he said.