Sabah Security Command News Today

KOTA KINABALU: Security forces here are continuing the hunt for gunmen who shot two Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) personnel earlier this month.

LAHAD DATU: Five Filipino individuals, suspected to be associated with militant activities and the Abu Sayyaf group, were apprehended in Semporna and Kunak last year.

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 25 (Bernama) -- The move to rebrand the dusk-to-dawn curfew in eastern Sabah waters, to the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (ESS Zone) Movement Control Order (MCO), and to reduce the areas placed under the list, shows that the level of security is getting stronger. Eastern Sabah Secu

Kota Kinabalu: A total of 40 kidnap-for-ransom cases were detected and thwarted in Sabah since 2017.

Kota Kinabalu: Tied to the longstanding issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah is that of squatter settlements that the majority of them reside in.

LAHAD DATU: The perception on Sabah security and its interplay with investment sentiments are getting an unprecedented in-depth look.

KOTA KINABALU: The General Operations Force (GOF) has managed to thwart smuggling attempts involving items worth some RM627,000 at the Sapi Nangoh road checkpoint in east coast Beluran district this year to date.

 ESSCom, security, patrol, operation, ESSZone, Victor Sanjos

KOTA KINABALU: It has been quiet on Sabah’s eastern front over the past three years. The notorious Abu Sayyaf-linked kidnap groups and other militant elements seemed to have been kept at bay amid a more visible presence of Malaysian security forces along the Sabah sea that borders with Philippines’ Tawi Tawi chain of islands.

THE Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) seized a total of RM33.291 million worth of controlled goods and drugs in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (Esszone) last year, said its Commander Datuk Hamzah Ahmad.