Sunday October 22, 2006
Mat Rempit missing from Kubang Semang area
BUKIT MERTAJAM: Where are the Mat Rempit?
The illegal motorcycle racers have gone missing from the roads here since the throwing of stones incident at the Kubang Semang police station last Sunday.
Penang police chief CPO Dep Comm Datuk Christopher Wan said that the task force formed to tackle the Mat Rempit menace in the Kubang Semang area had succeeded in keeping the illegal racers off the roads.
“Over the last one week, we have not spotted any Mat Rempit at the various road blocks set up along the Butterworth-Kulim Expressway (BKE)," he told a press conference at the Kubang Semang police station on Sunday.
DCP Wan said that the absence of the Mat Rempits could be a sign that they had started to change for the better after realising their mistakes.
“However, we would continue to monitor the favourite places of the Mat Rempits,” he said.
DCP Wan said the police would carry out talks at schools, colleges and institutions of higher learning to educate and warn students of the dangers in indulging in illegal races.
He later inspected several roadblocks set up to check on the illegal racers along the expressway.
Also present was Penanti assemblyman Datuk Abdul Jalil Abdul Majid.
The task force, comprising representation from the police, village development and security committees, RT and Rela, was set up to tackle the Mat Rempit problem following an attack on two policemen and the stoning of the police station.
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