Bukit Aman must up its cybersecurity game after GMRB, says Special Branch deputy director
Bukit Aman Special Branch deputy director Comm Datuk Ahmad Ramdzan Daud said militant and extremist groups like the Bangladeshi Radical Militant Group (GMRB) were making full use of social media to recruit members and spread their ideologies.
"We need to improve our technological and cyber-monitoring capabilities so that we can detect such activities early," he said.
He said that while social media has become an important tool for communication, it has also become a major weapon for foreign militants.
"Social media can be the eyes and ears of the community towards us, but at the same time, it is also manipulated for the purpose of extremism,' Comm Ahmad Ramdzan stressed.
He said although police have crippled the GMRB, which was collecting funds to support Islamic State (IS) cells in Syria and Bangladesh, they believe there were still other militant elements yet to be detected.
'Therefore, we continue to monitor the situation,' he said, adding it was their duty to remain vigilant and do their best in any circumstances.
Comm Ahmad Ramdzan said this to reporters after closing the Police Basic Training Programme (Pulapol) graduation parade, Series 5/2025 at the Sabah police headquarters in Kepayan here, Saturday (July 5).
A total of 200 trainees completed their six-month training, which included three main modules, namely Policing Transformation, Mindset Transformation and Policing Management.
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