Last weekend, the police operation Ops Samseng Jalanan was carried out in Penang, which saw 195 summonses issued for various offences and 48 motorcycles seized, reported The Star.
Meanwhile, 67 motorcyclists were made to push their vehicles approximately 3 km to the Butterworth police station from the roadblock mounted along the Butterworth Outer Ring Road (BORR) near the Bagan Ajam R&R area, according to the report.
The operation was led by the Penang traffic investigation and enforcement department (JSPT), and also involved officers and personnel from the crime prevention and community safety division, Butterworth police station and North Seberang Perai district police headquarters.
“The operation was aimed at preventing illegal racing activities and ensuring that road users abide by the rules at all times to reduce the risk of accidents,” said Penang state police chief Comm Datuk Hamzah Ahmad, who added that the police were committed to eradicating illegal racing here in an effort to cultivate a generation of road users who abided by the rules.
“I want to caution the people, particularly the younger generation of road users, against getting involved in illegal racing activities which can affect and endanger their lives as well as those of other road users,” Hamzah said.
The police operation comes after a TikTok video (now unavailable) depicted a large group of kapchai, or underbone motorcycle riders riding against traffic on the Butterworth Outer Ring Road near the North Butterworth container terminal, taking up two of the three-lane highway.
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As always, a knee jerk reaction to the latest incident. Will this remain a regular occurrence, leading to consistent absence of rempit nuisance? As my old man once said, tengok lah…
The seized bikes should be destroyed just like other contraband items, gambling machines, drugs, alcohols, ciggie.
a bunch of morons.
i always can’t help laughing at those motorcyclists that the police force them to push their bikes. they got to push over 100kg of metal around. that’s their preliminary punishment and a fine will come later. at least, they get to exercise a bit.
The ops only until 12 midnight?
they probably don’t know the active hours for those mat rempit supermans.
last year one midnight around 1-2am, when i’m rushing back to Perlis from Penang to see my dying mom, along the highway, a bunch of mat rempits hogging all highway lanes while they are flying like a superman, riding >110kmph!