Malaysia: Tighter Security at Kuala Lumpur’s International Airport; Crackdown on Luggage Thieves at Hotels

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | May 21st, 2008 | Trackback

A specially trained police force is now patrolling Kuala Lumpur’s international airport in response to an armed robbery in April that saw bandits make off with $1 million worth of Singaporean currency. The robbers wounded five people when they held up two currency exchange workers. The new force of 141 officers is now on round-the-clock patrol and an elite counterterrorism squad is on standby if needed at the airport. In related news, a series of robberies in hotel lobbies of tourists just arriving in Kuala Lumpur has spurred police and the Malaysian Association of Hotels to cooperate to apprehend the perpetrators. The thieves are believed to be gangs of foreigners from Colombia, Peru, the Philippines and the Middle East, and in some cases allegedly followed arriving passengers from the international airport to their hotels. There they worked as a team to distract their victims as they were checking in and made off with their luggage.

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