SEIZURE: Policemen carry the computers to the truck waiting outside the premises in Delta Road.
SIBU: Seven men and a woman gambled on a scheme to make money from an online casino. But the police were smarter at the game.
In two separate operations last week, police seized 27 desktop computers and arrested eight people.
Seven men and a woman were detained in the operations led by ASP Yeoh Chun Shyan.
In the first operation conducted on a house at Tan Sri Road here on Jan 2, the police confiscated 11 computers and detained four men.
Three men and a woman were detained in the second operation at 3pm on Monday at a shophouse in Delta Road here. Also seized were 16 computers.
Meanwhile, the number of Police, Rela, General Operation Force and Civil Defence Department personnel involved
in the Blue Ocean Strategy for
crime prevention had been increased by four folds in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebration.
More than 200 personnel from each departments and agencies working in shift are involved in patrolling the town centre beginning Monday.