PETALING JAYA, April 12 — A policeman has blown the lid off the highly-secured surveillance of detainees at the Jinjang Centralised lockup centre following alleged sexual attacks on three teenagers on Sunday. 

The boys told police the corporal, in his early 30s, had performed oral sex on one of them while the others were forced to masturbate earlier in front of him. 

The incidents happened outside the cell where the teenagers had been held on suspicion of being involved in a brawl at a Wangsa Maju school on Thursday. 

The suspect who is married with children apparently took a 15-year-old teenager out of a cell and ordered him to sweep the floor along the corridor. 

A police source said the suspect then offered the teenager a cigarette and told him he could smoke at a nearby corridor. 

“The suspect then approached the boy and grabbed his private parts before performing oral sex on him.” 

The source said the policeman took the boy back to his cell after taking his contact number. 

“The suspect told the victim that he would contact him after he was released from the lockup and that traumatised the victim,” he said. 

The teenager then related what had transpired to his friends, aged 14 and 16, who told him that they were forced to masturbate in front of the suspect hours earlier. 

The boys then related the incident to the officer investigating the brawl and later lodged a report at the police station on his advice. 

Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Amar Singh said police arrested the suspect yesterday.  

He said police had obtained the CCTV recording of the incident “which would definitely have captured the suspect’s movements in and around the cell.”

He said the victims and suspect would be taken for a medical examination.

The incident has exposed the weaknesses and disregard of standard operating procedure at what was supposed to be one of the safest detention centres in the country. 

The Jinjang lockup has Self-Monitoring Analytics Reporting Technology (SMART),  an intelligent security camera control system that can detect suspicious behaviour by inmates and police on duty. 

The RM3.5 million system, developed by the Malaysia Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS), was implemented in a pioneer project at the Jinjang Centralised Lockup Centre.

The CCTVs help police monitor sexual attacks on detainees, attempted suicide, fights and escape attempt. The behaviour of police personnel on duty will also be on the radar.

Bukit Aman Management Department Director Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah, who launched the SMART lockup on February 3, when contacted, said he will await the  findings by city police before making a decision whether a system review was necessary.

“However, if there has been a breach of standard operating procedure in the lockup that allowed this alleged incident to occur, those involved, including the lockup supervisor,  will be held accountable,” he said.