Overcrowding 4.22 The Commission mentioned that police lock-up is also exercised by other authorities such as Immigration Department, Customs, and Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (APMM) for short term, especially after the arrest or whenever Prison Department bring detainees to court. The practice sometimes causes the police lock-up to be overcrowded. The Commission found that 14 out of 47 visited lock-ups (almost 30%) were overcrowded. 4.23 Diagram 4 below shows no. of detainees who shared cells, for instance, 125 detainees mentioned that about 6-10 people were placed in a cell. This problem often occur in regular lock-ups since central lock-up is bigger in terms of size. 61

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