Police committed on zero relapse of militant cases - SB director

Police will continue to monitor released rehabilitated militants to ensure zero relapse cases nationwide, said Bukit Aman Special Branch director Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Mohd Harun.

Thus far, out of 240 detainees of Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qaeda who were arrested between 2001 to 2011, five percent or 13 relapse cases were detected, in which the number involving those who returned to their antique or militancy activities while 95 per cent had reintegrated to the mainstream society with some becoming prominent businessmen.

"95 percent is an excellent figure but we are looking at zero tolerant on the issue, the number (five per cent) is negligible but we still need to monitor them.

"We are improving our module to ensure 100 percent of success in our rehabilitation programme," he said during the plenary session of the International Conference on Deradicalisation and Countering Violent Extremism (IDC) 2016, here, today.

Mohamad Fuzi said apart from monitoring, 287 sessions of explanatory programmes which attracted 57,000 participants had been conducted nationwide by the police from mid-2014 to last year.

This, Mohamad Fuzi said was done to create awareness on the danger of Daish promoting self-proclaimed violent jihadism.

"Never before has the police been so active in engaging with the community," he said.

Describing prevention as the 'mother' of all strategies in combating terrorism, he said police with the cooperation of multiple agencies would continue to conduct the upstream measures.

"This measures will perhaps ensure that the public will not be influenced by the rhetoric propaganda disseminated by IS which claims to uphold Islam and establish a true Islamic nation," he said.