PADAWAN: The Puncak Borneo Prison will be enhancing its security measures to prevent future jailbreaks like the recent one involving four inmates.
Puncak Borneo Prison Director Assistant Commissioner Hamdan Salleh Majin said, “This reception transit centre has been upgraded and gazetted as a prison and it is equipped with grilles, gates, chain link fences, barbed wires and closed-circuit television (CCTV).
“With grilles installed indoors, the guards were not able to look inside. There are cameras but they are placed outside the building.
“Last Saturday, I appointed a reliable contractor to add and enhance security measures to ensure that such incident will not happen again,” he told a press conference on Monday.
He revealed that after the jailbreak, all 45 inmates were emptied from the building and placed in the main block.
As pointed out by the police earlier on, the four inmates escaped through the second door of the prison.
“For the record, that door is only used for emergency cases. Hence, I will be assigning guards there on a 24-hour shift once we are operational,” said Hamdan.
He revealed that inmates who entered the reception transit centre were not handcuffed.
In terms of the standard operating procedures (SOPs), there was no negligence involving handcuffs, he added. The inmates were only handcuffed if they were moving out of the building.
All four inmates are now back in the Puncak Borneo Prison.
The case is still being investigated under Sections 223 and 224 of the Penal Code.
