Vice-president Junz Wong says SB officers can request to attend, identify themselves, but must not pretend to be reporters.
According to a Special Branch officer, a media consultant for Chief Minister Shafie Apdal has forbidden SB personnel from press conferences.
Warisan vice-president Junz Wong told FMT today that the Special Branch will not be allowed into any press conference if they were there uninvited. Junz, who is also the state agriculture and food industry minister, said it had been the norm in the past for the police to send their Special Branch personnel to cover government and opposition events. Under the present Warisan government, that practice was no longer in place.Special Branch personnel are usually assigned to secure the perimeter for ministers and government events.
Questions were also asked why Warisan decided to put this rule in place and whether Warisan president and Chief Minister Shafie Apdal is aware of this as it only made him look bad.
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