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The police are yet to receive any notice on Monday's protest against the Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) move to hike property assessment rates, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said today.

As such, Khalid said, the organisers responsible should be prepared to face legal action under the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012 (PAA) if they proceeded with their plan.

NONE"Whatever it is, the rules under PAA must be followed. If not, be prepared to face action under the Act," Khalid said at a press conference at the Bukit Aman police headquarters this evening.

Under the PAA, rally organisers need to give police an advance notice of at least 10 days prior to holding a rally.

The Pakatan Rakyat-backed rally slated for Monday comes just a day before Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Mansor is due to review the DBKL assessment rates decision on Dec 17.

Some 507,000 property owners in Kuala Lumpur have received notification of on DBKL’s increasing of the rental assessments of their properties, for the first time in 21 years – some as high as 300 percent.

Tengku Adnan said the higher taxes would rake in about RM400 million more for DBKL and the money would be used for roads, markets and drainage upgrading and garbage collection.

'Send complaints in writing'

However, he said there was no final decision yet and urged those who oppose the tax hike to send in their complaints in writing, instead of protesting in the streets.

However, opponents to the tax hike, including Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai, have called on DBKL to come clean on its accounts, pointing out that it has recorded a surplus of RM270 million in 2012.

On another issue, Khalid said he would discuss the suggestion to form a ‘syariah police team’ to curb deviant teachings and Shiism with the director-general of the Department of Islamic Development (Jakim).

Khalid said the meeting would be arranged as soon as possible and “there may be modifications” along the way, but he declined to elaborate on this.

“As I have said before, we are prepared to help (state) Islamic Affairs Departments and Jakim in enforcing the laws, including syariah law, in the states.

“According to state syariah laws, the police already have some power to enforce those laws, so we will cooperate,” he added.

Khalid said this when asked about Home Minister Zahid Hamidi’s statement last night that his ministry is studying a proposal to place police officers in Jakim’s religious enforcement team to curb deviant teachings and Shiism.