Intensifying efforts to curb the Mat Rempit, or road hooligan, menace, Malaysian traffic police is going undercover. Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcment Department (JSPT) director Datuk Seri Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said traffic police personnel are vigilant against road hooligans.
“Part of our strategy in eradicating them is going undercover. Once we get a tip-off, our personnel will go undercover and gather intelligence. Based on the information gathered, we will then conduct operations,” said Yusri in a New Sunday Times report.
Yusri said hotspots in Kuala Lumpur were identified as well as highways located in the outskirts and other states. Among locations listed were Dataran Merdeka, Jalan Raja Laut, sections of the Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway, Kajang-Seremban Expressway, North-South Expressway, Guthrie Corridor Expressway, West and East Coast Expressway, and Persiaran Raja Muda Musa in Klang.
“Aside from going undercover and conducting roadblocks, our personnel are also conducting patrols at the popular areas where these Mat Rempit gather,” said Yusri. He added this is a continuous effort and JSPT will be conducting Op Samseng Jalanan, Op Motosikal, and Op Didik to deter rood hooligans and raise road safety awareness.
Yusri also said JSPT has established the anti-rempit “Squad 42” in every state. “Skuad 42 is also still up and running nationwide. Each state police headquarters has its own Skuad 42 to tackle the Mat Rempit problem,” said Yusri, adding that information and tip offs from the public are welcome.
He explained Squad 42 is an elite team of policemen entrusted with infiltrating motorcycle racing gangs, breaking up their races and tracking down offenders. The name is taken from Section 42 of the Road Transport Act 1987, pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of reckless and dangerous road users.
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Those Mat Rempit are like pests, cockroaches. Won’t die and continue infestation.
As long as the social and moral upbringing is not there, the absence of quality vs quantity, we will continue to be infested.
As much as I despise “rempit” culture and the people that self identify as such, trying to brand the group as vermin dehumanises them. Let’s not forget they are people after all, albeit confused and for the most part have lost their ways.
Talk of eradicating them is akin to genocide. I wish the relevant authorities that we pay for step up efforts to enforce the rules that already exists. Kudos to initiatives as above to keep them in check.
In every region country, in every country there is underground racing subculture from Japan to USA. It is how we honour and respect this heritage that makes them icons and big bucks in cinemas.
In the end that undercover polis will be lured and join the familia Toretto just like me. Then us racers go on to make countless of blockbuster movies. Not bad for cockroaches eh?
Do you need undercover? The mat rempit can even terlepas in road blocks.
from the list of roads they race, they only race on straight roads. so technically not much of skills are involved. all one person needs is a 600cc and above sports bike, can smoke them already and get all the winnings home.
Macan fast n furious 1. Undercover but rempit style! hahahaha
Later make big movies like FNF!
Is KJ still the spokesman for the MR ?
KJ..the billionaire from Oxford Ulu Kelang?
You kidding ? He might not be the spokesman..silently ,elitely he might be amongst some big cc high powered biker rempits.
Simply put,he is the mauverick top gun among rempits…ha ha …even zahidkor kalah.
Fuyoh after so many years only thought about this? Btw can catch or summon those motorcyclists using motorcar lane when there is motorcycle lane such as federal highway? Dah lah jam, mau tukar lane tiba2 kena hon by bike because they all are using the lane between car lanes. Worst lagi Macam kita salah pula lol.
This is ahlokekor’s dream come true…an undercover stint by polis.
PDRM go nab them ..do pre emptive strike b4 more die or bystanders also die.If worst come to worst they still manage to race…JAIL the recalcitrant parents who “loan’them the killing machines.All bikes yg di sita…should be heaped into a huge stockpile ,burnt or crushed.
Don’t need undercover la. Come to Elimna rainbow bridge on Sunday evening. Weekly gathering. Even call the police also still the same problem.
Don’t need to be undercover. Just drive through most highways during night time and you’ll surely spot them, it’s that easy and they’re everywhere. Or can just stop them at the toll booth.
I scared Mutt Rempit go undercover as Mutt Kop