Five policemen were arrested in Miri on suspicion of extortion on Tuesday this week.
A foreigner made a police report against five policemen here Monday, alleging that he and a friend were extorted by the lawkeepers while they were waiting for their bus at the city centre.
A remand order of four days were placed upon the five suspects by the magistrate court yesterday.
The remand order was made by lower court registrar Dora Undau after allowing the request made by the investigating officer.
In the request, the investigating officer told the court on 19 April 2010, an Indonesian man made a police report at the Miri Central Police station.
In the report, the complainant alleged that at 11am on 4 April 2010 while waiting for bus with a friend at the bus stop infront of the Miri City Council, they were approached by five uniformed policemen.
According to the complainant, the five policemen proceeded to demand the Indonesian men to show their travelling document.
Both of them showed their work permits to the policemen, but the policemen were not satisfied and told them the work permits were not documents for them to come out to walk about.
The policemen then directed the two Indonesian men to enter a car to bring them to the police station, where they were forced to pay a certain amount of money to the policemen in order for them to be released.
Both of them had given each RM200 to the policemen involved, besides 19 prepaid handphone cards worth RM10 each were seized from them by the policemen.
Acting on the information, at 4:05pm on 20 April, a team of policemen led by chief inspector Jeffrey Guhak arrested the suspects at the Miri Central Police station on suspicion of involvement in the case.
The court allowed the remand application according to Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code to detain the suspects four day to facilitate police investigation.
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