Commissioner of Police assigned private security
27 Jan 2015, 7:30 PM
Minivan News
Commissioner of Police Hussain Waheed has decided to have a personal security detail for the first time since he was appointed to the post, with media reporting death threats having been made against him.
Spokesperson for the commissioner Superintendent Ahmed Shifan confirmed to Minivan News that Waheed had started using personal security.
“The commissioner has started taking personal security starting today,” said Shifan. “However, information regarding any threats cannot be disclosed at the moment.”
However, Vaguthu has reported a police information officer as saying that police intelligence had received information of some threats made to the commissioner.
Last year saw the repeated instances of SMS death threats against journalists and politicians, with police working alongside the Communication Authority of Maldives to identify the senders.
Source: Vaguthu, Vnews
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