[VIDEO] PDRM Officer Pranks Orang Asli Children With Arrest For Defying MCO
The video has gone viral with over 100,000 shares.
By Yap Wan Xiang — 15 Apr 2020, 02:52 PM
Growing up, some of us were afraid of the cops because our parents loved to use them to scare us into obedience
Phrases such as "you better eat your broccoli or else I am calling the cops to arrest you" are something we always hear in a household with little children.
In that spirit, but executed by real cops, one Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) officer used the same technique to give a group of Orang Asli children a lesson for defying the Movement Control Order (MCO)
In a two-minute long viral video, a group of Orang Asli children are stopped by policemen for walking together without practising social distancing.
According to The Star, the incident took place at Kampung Minyak Beku in Batu Pahat, Johor at 2.30pm last Saturday, 11 April.
The video shows the policemen reprimanding the children for defying the MCO, while educating them about the ongoing battle against the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
In the adorable scene, the children are heard begging the police officers not to arrest them and allow them to go back home
One police officer, who takes up the roles of both 'good cop' and 'bad cop', asks the children if they are degil (stubborn) for being out as a group, and very quickly, a few of them admitted with a nod.
The policeman then pretendedly says he will arrest all of them for breaking the law, triggering all of them to wail and beg for leniency.
"As you all know it is an offence to come out of your homes during the MCO. If you are all stubborn and do not listen, I will call for a police truck and take you to a police station where you will be held for a day," the officer, who is a member of the General Operations Force according to theSundaily, says in the video.
A child donned in a Team Malaysia jersey is seen putting up his hands in the air during the arrest scare.
Image via Dzul SP/FacebookAfter giving the children a stern lesson, the police officer then adopts the 'good cop' persona and asks the children if they are facing any problem
The officer sees a basket filled with plastic bags and asks if the children are selling food for a living.
One child says he was selling fried sweet potato for RM1 a packet. Thus, the officer offers to buy all the remaining packets and orders the children to place it on his motorcycle.
The hilarious clip ends there, but it is learned that the children were let off under a strict condition that they do not loiter in the area again.
Following the incident, Johor police chief commissioner Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay said PDRM will practise caution when dealing with children as they do not want to traumatise them
Ayob said the police will never arrest children and there are situations where compromise and goodwill are required.
"We have to be sensitive and use discretion when it comes to very young children. They are naive and if they are arrested, it can leave a lasting trauma on them," the state police chief told theSundaily.
