JOHOR BAHRU Nov 25 (Bernama): Police have refuted a fake statement which went viral on social media that Singaporeans may face snatch thieves here when the Malaysia-Singapore border is opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Johor police chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said police will take stern action against irresponsible parties for spreading fake information, rumours or unverified news on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stressed that the overall crime in the state from January this year had fallen by 2,610 cases, or 39.67%, and the situation was under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSnatch thefts in Johor in the same period also recorded a fall of 125 cases, which is equivalent to 77.64% compared to last year. Similarly, motorcycle thefts also dropped by 1,099 cases or 51.05%,\u201d he said in a statement here tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ayob Khan said, however, that police would continue to act aggressively to eradicate crime and ensure the state was safe to live in and visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this regard, he advised members of the public not to believe what was going viral on social media, saying they should verify the information received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, the fake statement alleged that hundreds of thieves on motorcycles in the district are ready to pounce on tourists from Singapore when the Malaysia-Singapore border is reopened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statement, among others, claimed that police would not be taking action because there would be too many cases to handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier today, the Prime Minister\u2019s Office said Singapore and Malaysia would launch a land vaccinated travel lane (VTL) via the Causeway from Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Called VTL-Land, it would be limited to transportation by bus, but other modes would be included in stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Singapore-bound designated bus services would use the Larkin Sentral bus terminal (Larkin Sentral) as the boarding and disembarkation point in Malaysia, and the Queen Street Terminal (QST) in Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JOHOR BAHRU Nov 25 (Bernama): Police have refuted a fake statement which went viral on social media that Singaporeans may face snatch thieves here when the Malaysia-Singapore border is opened. Johor police chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said police will take stern action against irresponsible parties for spreading fake information, rumours or unverified news on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,33,10],"tags":[66,88,236],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-malaysia-news","category-tie-travel","tag-johor","tag-singapore","tag-snatch-thieves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unclekentang.com\/bi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}