Serving BN’s special interest at the expense of public safety
This article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 4/12/2013 The Special Branch, or better known as the SB, is an intelligence unit of the Royal Malaysia Police. The SB is tasked with acquiring and developing intelligence on internal and external threats to our nation’s security and public order. Apart from dealing with security intelligence, the SB’s other tasks are to gather reports related to political security on behalf of the Barisan Nasional government, like activities run by politicians, political parties and some selected NGOs; establishing profiles on political leaders from branch, division, state and national levels; monitoring leaders of NGOs and activists; monitoring political situation as well as gathering information on the people’s sentiment towards major issues, public policies and the current government. The SB was established during the Malayan Emergency period to deal with the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) guerilla warfare against the then Malay...