KUALA LUMPUR: The police nabbed 80 individuals yesterday for violating the movement restriction standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said of these, 79 were slapped with compounds and the remaining one was remanded.
He said among the violations were for not providing equipment to record customer details (26 cases), entertainment centre activities (24), failure to practice physical distancing (16), traveling interstate and inter-district without permission (nine), not wearing face masks (four) and one other.
"The compliance operation task force led by the police yesterday had conducted 68,389 inspections to monitor and enforce the SOP.
"A total of 3,528 compliance team comprising 15,578 personnel conducted inspections at 6,114 restaurants, 4,559 supermarkets, 4,217 hawker stalls, 3,164 banks, 2,020 factories, 960 government offices, and 139 pasar awam/tani,
"Also inspected were 18,080 recreational/leisure areas, 3,664 land transport terminals, 1,753 water transport terminals, 822 air transport terminals, and 334 places of worship," he said in a statement today.
On 'Op Benteng', Ismail Sabri said the authorities arrested 10 illegal immigrants and also seized six vehicles and a boat/ship.
He added that the police, Armed Forces, Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), Malaysian Border Security Agency (Aksem) as well as other security and enforcement agencies mounted 257 'Op Benteng' and 'Op Penawar' roadblocks nationwide yesterday.
Meanwhile, Ismail Sabri said 155,390 people had returned or allowed to enter the country since July 24 last year.
They included 1,340 people who arrived from abroad via the country's international entry points on Friday.
"Those who arrived from abroad were placed under quarantine at 80 hotels as well as eight public and private training institutions throughout the country.
"Of the 155,390 returnees, 6,623 people have been placed under quarantine and 147,608 allowed to return home, while 1,159 were taken to hospital," he added.