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Ministry Takes Over
Construction Of Two Abandoned Police HQ Complexes
bernama.com 2/8/2005
SUNGAI PETANI, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- The Internal Security Ministry will take
over the construction of two police district headquarters complexes in Kedah
that have been abandoned by a private housing developer, Deputy Minister
Datuk Noh Omar said Tuesday.
He said the ministry's financial allocation would be used to expedite
construction of the headquarters complexes of the Yan and Pendang police
districts.
The services of the developer, contracted to build three police district
headquarters complexes in the state, had been terminated, he told a press
conference after a visit to the Kuala Muda police district headquarters
complex, the only complex that the developer had completed.
Under a privatisation project, the developer was permitted to develop the
Lagenda Heights township on land owned by the Royal Malaysia Police in
Sungai Petani on condition that three new police district headquarters
complexes were constructed in Kedah.
"The company should have completed the Kuala Muda, Yan and Pendang complexes
simultaneously last year but it only finished building the Kuala Muda
complex, at a cost of RM53.7 million," he said.
Noh said he was dissatisfied with the construction of the lockup, quarters
for low-rank personnel and the hall at the Kuala Muda complex when he made
his first visit to the complex last year and the developer was asked to make
adjustments.
He said the Certificate of Fitness for Occupation was obtained on May 17 and
all units at the Kuala Muda police district headquarters now located in the
Sungai Petani town centre had begun to move to the new complex in the
Lagenda Heights township.
The Kuala Muda police district headquarters would begin operating from the
new complex on Aug 20, he said, adding that the old building would house the
Sungai Petani police station.
Noh said 106 families of low-rank police personnel of the Kuala Muda police
district headquarters who have more than four children would be given two
units of quarters as the units were small. The partitioning wall between the
units would be torn down, he added.
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