Police's MH17 Op postponed due to cold weather
STILL A MESS: The mission is expected to resume in April next year once winter is over. - AFP Photo/filepic
The MH17 Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) investigation Op may not be able to access the location of the crash at this time after taking into account weather and safety factors.
Inspector-General of Police, Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the number of investigators will be scaled down from 30 appropriately, and the rest will be sent home in the near future.
“Although we cannot go to the crash site, it does not mean that the mission has failed. We have proven to all Malaysians that we are willing to work in any situation,” he said.
He said this during a session with all the officers and staff involved in MH17 Op here yesterday.
Also present were PDRM's Public Order Department head, SAC Datuk Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid as chief of the police delegation in Ukraine; DVI Commander ACP Hussien Omar Khan; and communications adviser to the United Kingdom, ACP Nik Aziz Nik Abd Razak as the communications officer in Ukraine.
The mission is expected to resume next April once winter is over.
MH17 Flight crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members.
The Boeing 777-200 aircraft was believed to have been shot down.
Out of the 43 Malaysians who were killed in the crash, 41 bodies of 26 passengers and 15 crew members have been identified.
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