Political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, better known as Zunar, has urged newly-minted inspector-general of police Mohamad Fuzi Harun to disband Bukit Aman's social media unit.

“The new IGP should bring back the police force to the right track.

“He needs to disband the social media unit in Bukit Aman and make (fighting) crime and corruption his priority. He should reopen the 1MDB probe,” he said in a statement.

Zunar claimed that Fuzi's predecessor Khalid Abu Bakar had spent too much time on Twitter, to the point he was called "ketua twitter negara" instead of "ketua polis negara". 

The cartoonist, who has landed in trouble with the police on numerous occasions under Khalid's watch, never failed to lampoon Khalid in his work, often drawing the top cop in the act of tweeting.

Last December, Khalid advised Zunar not to condemn the country's leaders in his drawings and quipped that the cartoonist should focus on drawing characters like "Donald Duck" instead.

"It is not simple and it is not our culture to draw people in that way. It is insulting and seditious, it makes people hate government leaders.

"It is a subtle way to incite people to hate our leaders. Is this what we want to teach our children?" the newly retired police chief had said.

Khalid was commenting on Zunar's arrest back then, under the Sedition Act and Section 504 of the Penal Code, for attempting to breach the peace.

This was after his exhibition in Penang was disrupted by a group led by Penang Umno Youth chief Rafizal Abdul Rahim.

In the ensuing chaos, two of Zunar's pieces were damaged.

Khalid, 60, retired yesterday after serving the police force for 41 years. His successor is the former head of the Special Branch.