UPSR leak: Four teachers arrested
Published on: Monday, September 15, 2014
Kuala Lumpur: Police arrested four teachers in separate raids in Penang and Parit Buntar, Perak, on Sunday in connection with the leaks in the Science and English papers in this year's Primary School Achievement Test (UPSR) examination. Kuala Lumpur CID Chief SAC Gan Kong Meng said the four, one of whom was a woman, were arrested in a special operation that began at 3.30pm on Saturday."The suspects' ages are between 30 and 54 years. Three were arrested in Penang and the other in Perak. Police also seized communication gadgets in the operation to assist investigations," he said in a statement here Sunday.
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Gan added that police had recorded statements from 10 individuals concerning the leaks, six officers from the Examinations Syndicate, three teachers and a journalist. Following the leaks in the Science 018, 028 and 038 and English 014/1 and 014/2 papers on Thursday, almost half a million UPSR students now have to resit the papers on Sept 30.The fiasco sparked outrage among parents and students. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Education Minister, on Friday announced that the Examinations Syndicate Director, Dr Na'imah Ishak, and its Deputy Director of Operations, Dr Wan Ilias Wan Salleh, had been suspended with immediate effect pending investigations into the fiasco.Meanwhile, in BUTTERWORTH, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the police will not protect those individuals or senior officers involved in leaking the UPSR Science and English papers.
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He said the police had opened an investigation paper and were liaising with the Education Ministry to jointly carry out a detailed probe into the leakages."More information will be unearthed by the police, especially on the method of distribution of question papers of not only UPSR, but also other examinations.
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