He said that other than giving more police officers the opportunity to gain experience in performing important tasks, it was also to avoid the possibility of misconduct among them.

“In addition, the transfer of officers who had held sensitive posts too is to isolate any officer suspected to have links to certain issues or had perpetrated misconduct before action is taken against them,” he said.

Hamid also said that among examples of incidents that prompted the implementation of the rotation for sensitive posts was the discovery of police officers and personnel who were suspected to be in cahoots with online gambling syndicates and the Macau Scam, recently.

He said, the changing and revamping for purpose of rotation was being implemented and was expected to last until the end of the year.

Yesterday, Bernama reported that the police had acted against its senior officers on suspicion of having links to individuals who were detained to help in investigations against online gambling syndicates and the Macau Scam.

Also reported was a major revamp of the police force involving over 20 personnel, officers and senior officers.

Prior to this, Hamid was also reported to have said that all officers and personnel to be placed in the Anti-Vice, Gambling and Secret Societies Division (D7), Narcotic CID and CID would be screened by a special committee set up by Bukit Aman to ensure they were people of high integrity.