KUALA LUMPUR The city Criminal Investigation Department (CID) disposed crime items worth RM2.898 million here today.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Allaudeen Abdul Majid said 42,408 crime items and cash amounting to RM24,106 were disposed of.
"All items disposed of this afternoon involve investigations from five districts, including the Cheras district police headquarters involving 32,981 units of crime items worth RM2.114 million and the Brickfields district police headquarters involving 1,660 units of crime items worth RM292,600.
"This disposal also involves a total of 429 investigation papers that have been completed over the past 10 years, from 2010 to 2023," he said after opening the Kuala Lumpur CID Crime Items Disposal Ceremony at the Alam Damai police station in Cheras today.
Also present were the city CID chief Datuk Habibi Majinji and the district police chiefs representing the five districts in the capital.
"Among the broken crime items disposed of are gambling cases such as electronic goods, laptop computers, phones, and tablets, bitcoin machines, contraband cases such as cigarettes, alcohol, firecrackers, and items such as branded condoms, and others.
"We dispose of all these crime items after the cases have been heard and sentenced in court and orders to destroy these items have been issued, which are subject to Section 407 (2) of the Criminal Procedure Code (Act 593)."
At the same time, Allaudeen also explained that the disposal of police investigation items takes a long time because they cannot be disposed of arbitrarily.
"We have a legal process where if a case is charged and heard in the magistrate's court or High Court, it will go through the appeals process in the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court, which will take a long time to obtain a decision and settle.
"After we receive the order to destroy the crime items that have been sentenced, only then will we dispose of the relevant items, including the cash seized in the case," he added.
