PUTRAJAYA: Items linked to narcotic cases have been reported missing after the exhibit store in the Sepang district police headquarters was broken into on Friday.
Selangor police chief Datuk Hussein Omar Khan confirmed the incident today, adding that no arrests had been made yet.
"It's still under investigation and we have to rectify many things first," he said.
A police report claiming that the exhibit store had been ransacked and case items, along with a bag containing a laptop with information on the exhibit data, had gone missing, went viral recently.
The report mentioned that the closed-circuit TV camera at the location was damaged and not functioning.
It was learnt that the incident was discovered at 8.15am by policemen whose shift had just started.
They found the front iron gate was locked but the wooden door on the inside was unlocked.
When the door was opened, the store was ransacked and the sliding window on the counter was open.
An inspection found that more than 500 6x12-inch envelopes containing case items related to narcotics cases stored in a special box in the store's office space were missing.
All the envelopes contain drugs for cases being investigated under Section 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 involving completed cases for the year 2014 until 2022.
All the items in the case were also said to be in the process of disposal and data was being updated in the laptop, however, the laptop was also found to be missing.
Investigation at the scene found that the suspect is believed to have cut the wire on the fence behind the store to enter the store area.
The suspect is then believed to have entered the exhibit store through the opening of the store's window counter.
However, information on the amount and value of the items reported missing was not disclosed.