Police Pledge
Section 3 (3) Police Act 1967 stipluates that the duties of the Royal Malaysia Police personnel are as follows:
- Apprehending all persons whom he is by law authorised to apprehend;
- Processing security intelligence;
- Conducting prosecutions;
- Giving assistance in the carrying out of any law relating to revenue, excise, sanitation, quarantine, immigration and registration;
- Giving assistance in the preservation of order in the ports, harbours and airports of Malaysia, and in enforcing maritime and port regulations;
- Executing summonses, subpoenas, warrants, commitments and other process lawfully issued by any competent authority;
- Exhibiting information;
- Protecting unclaimed and lost property and finding the owners thereof;
- Seizing stray animals and placing them in a public pound;
- Giving assistance in the protection of life and property;
- Protecting public property from loss or injury;
- Attending the criminal courts and, if specially ordered, the civil courts, and keeping order therein; and
- Escorting and guarding prisoners and other persons in the custody of the police.
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