‘I want army to man borders’

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Read More : http://www.nst.com.my/node/86789
KUALA LUMPUR: The home minister is pushing for a drastic move in hopes of crippling institutionalised corruption at the borders, as a damning intelligence report emerged to reveal that most law enforcement officers manning the country’s entry and exit points were on the take. Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi told the New Straits Times that he would present his case to the cabinet today on why it was more crucial than ever for enforcement agencies guarding the borders to be relieved of their duties. He wants them to be replaced with the military. “I cannot tolerate this. That is why I will take this up with the cabinet tomorrow (today) to ask that the army takes over fully. “It is high time for the army to be put in charge of the borders as it is not only about security, but also defence. It is the country’s first line of defence and I have always felt that this should be the way, even when I was defence minister. “The issue of institutionalised corruption, where these law enforcement officers know the syndicate members well, must be arrested once and for all,” he said. Zahid said he would also raise the issue of the country’s perimeter fencing, which was practically non-existent. “When even nations with electrical, high, concrete fencing had to grapple with the problem of encroachment, imagine the problem we are facing. Our border areas that are being penetrated are not rat lanes (lorong tikus). They are elephant lanes that are easily accessible.” He added that the Malaysian Anti-Smuggling Unit should also operate beyond its fixed checkpoints at the border to arrest rampant smuggling.

New Straits Times

technically role of Amy/Navy/Airforce is protect and control borders.
and MMEA is with in borders, is 2nd level low enforcement after from Navy。

some news reported mmea complaint only allow patrol with in 50km, than like melaka street and sabah area distance to border is less than 50km,
other issue is limited and old patrol boat own by RMN hard to protect entire borders, some place have to mix RMN and MMEA. so can wider coverage。
as issue before, RMN need alot new 300 and 500-600 tons patrol boat。 current 230-280 tons RMN patrol boat already 40+ year using, is very old and serviceability already not meet current security requirement.

Takpe....yg penting kita capable utk beri amaran!!

Menhan kata takpe..... saya handal bagi amaran...sejak dulu lagi.

i guest we need upto 48-64 unit combine small patrol boat with 1x25mm gun, 2x12.7mm gun at side. 
total just need about usd 0.7-1 billion

well deftech only do land weapon recently on air business.
hence we still got 5-6 local shipyard can produce boat, except boasthed navy shipyard other shipyard only make small patrol boat about 10-25 meter for polis/mmea/etc and no on-board gun,some no radar means low tech boat.
went built proper mmea/navy patrol boat usually have 50 meter long for 300+ tons, with Radar, comm, navigation, remote weapon gun, it have to more high level skill and experience shipyard which lack for. anyway it still can get outsource like kongsberg, furuno to do integration.
problem is local shipyard always waiting gov give Contract and Money first。
should take initiative to come-out design/built-it small patrol boat to show there capability , than give RMN and MMEA to try 1-2 year. but who want spend 10+ million usd to built ship?

Most if not some MMEA interceptor and patrol boats is ady locally manufactured, from sabah/sarawak boatyards

we have big ship yard like boasthed navy shipyard （BNS）and NMEL have capability to built patrol boat，but both shipyard already have contract to built Gowind LCS, and NMEL propose built Corvette to RMN which partner with DSME Korea，
what i means we lack of engineer design/system/built/integration of patrol boat/ship (above 300 tons) , BNS also send engineer to DCNS to learn ship design/plan via Gowind project.
so usually local shipbuilder have to partner with oversea shipbuilder means bought the patrol boat/ship design/TOT which very high cost。