S'WAK POLLS Sarawak police commissioner Muhammad Sabtu Osman said police have only received reports on minor offences since campaigning for the Sarawak election started on May 25.

He said police so far had received 107 reports, mostly on vandalism of election posters.

“Till today there has been no major cases, just minor offences like supporters of opposing parties shouting at each other and posters being vandalised,” he told reporters at the state police headquarters in Kuching.

Earlier, he had flagged off a convoy which will be bringing police reinforcements to police contingents in Sarawak ahead of the election on Saturday.

Muhammad Sabtu said as of yesterday, police had opened 66 investigation papers on the complaints and the cases were being investigated under Sections 323 and 500 of the Penal Code and Election Offences Act 1954.

On today’s event, he said police had mobilised 1,817 personnel from the Kuching Police Training Centre, Marine Operations Force, General Operations Force and contingent police headquarters throughout the state to beef up police presence in all districts until polling was over.

Asked if police had detected any betting activities on election outcomes, Muhammad Sabtu said so far there were no such reports.

“We have a special task force to monitor this menace and monitoring will be done until the election is over,” he said.

- Bernama