In a post “Fencing needs to be installed”, a lawyer was quoted to have said that PM6’s home must meet Prison Standards if gazetted for house arrest.
Apparently, presently, Malaysian law does not have a dedicated "house arrest" statute, but under Section 3 of the Prisons Act 1995, the Home Minister is empowered by notification in the Federal Government Gazette to declare “any house, building, enclosure or place, or any part thereof, to be a prison”.
Thus, it depends entirely on official written confirmation between the Home Affairs Ministry, the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), and the Prisons Department and the completion of prerequisite conditions (such as payment of court fines or clearance of legal documentation).
For sure, the Prisons Department would have to determine and provides the security arrangements and restrictions, which could include deployment of prison officers and electronic monitoring.
The physical management of his home detention will fall under the government’s budget i.e meaning less funds are available for public projects for the ordinary rakyat.
The logistical structures that will require the Prisons Department to utilize existing institutional personnel and technology budgets already allocated to federal corrections, necessitating the need to increase and provide additional allocations to Federal corrections.
These are the quantifiable public funds and resource reallocations required to execute and enforce the home detention order at his home.
- Security Personnel and Coordination: Under the security framework, the Malaysian Prisons Department manages internal residential monitoring, while the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) secures the exterior. Stationing enforcement officers on a continuous roster at a high-profile private property shifts personnel away from standard public duties.
- Monitoring Technology: The state must absorb the costs of procurement, deployment, and 24/7 technical oversight for tracking hardware (such as Electronic Monitoring Devices, or EMDs) to guarantee adherence to boundary constraints.
- Administrative Oversight and SOP Drafting: Significant legal and institutional resource hours from the Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC), the Ministry of Home Affairs, and the Prisons Department are consumed to draft, review, and finalize highly bespoke standard operating procedures (SOPs) for this historic, first-of-its-kind arrangement.
Haizzzz…if all remains status quo and there is no new growth areas or increase in revenue for the government in the near future, looks like ordinary rakyat probably have to wait longer for some of those public health projects.
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