{"id":16207,"date":"2023-01-29T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16207"},"modified":"2023-01-29T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T09:38:50","slug":"pdrm-ready-to-deploy-additional-manpower-to-flood-hit-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=16207","title":{"rendered":"PDRM ready to deploy additional manpower to flood-hit states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BATU PAHAT, Jan 29<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0The Royal Malaysia\u00a0Police (PDRM) is always ready to deploy\u00a0additional manpower including from Bukit Aman to deal with the flood disaster, especially in Johor and Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said for the time being, there is no requirement for additional manpower as the capacity of officers and policemen in the districts affected by the floods is still sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said if the need arises, PDRM will\u00a0deploy personnel\u00a0from the Police Contingent Headquarters\u00a0level first, followed by Bukit Aman.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-1024x556.png\" alt=\"pdrm\" class=\"wp-image-16208\" width=\"459\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-184x100.png 184w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-350x190.png 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-800x434.png 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo far, only&nbsp;Johor and Sabah are still affected by the floods and the number of evacuees is decreasing,\u201d he told reporters after attending a flood briefing at Sri Medan Police Station here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acryl Sani said PDRM&nbsp;had received several new boats to be used during&nbsp;patrols and to assist other agencies in evacuating the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf there is a need for more boats in flood-hit areas, we will apply to&nbsp;the government. However, the assets are still adequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we can see, the situation in several locations is improving, and we hope there will be no more continuous rains causing floods,\u201d&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/\">NMT<\/a> as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/general\/news.php?id=2160094\">Bernama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BATU PAHAT, Jan 29 &#8212;\u00a0The Royal Malaysia\u00a0Police (PDRM) is always ready to deploy\u00a0additional manpower including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10891,524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-nation"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",1176,638,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-300x163.png",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-768x417.png",640,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM-1024x556.png",640,348,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",1176,638,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",1176,638,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",1176,638,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",1024,556,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screenshot-2023-01-29-at-5.38.10-PM.png",720,391,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=10891\" rel=\"category\">Environment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a>","tag_info":"Nation","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16209,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions\/16209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}