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SEPANG: The Sepang district Disaster Management Committee will seek police aid to detect 400 residents of Medan 88, Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi, here, who did not return home after receiving information that barbed wires would be installed in the area for the implementation of the enhanced movement control order (EMCO).

Its chairman Mohamad Zain A Hamid said the number of those who did not return home were detected following interviews with residents there who said their housemates or family members did not return as soon as they found out that the area would be placed under EMCO.

“The police will detect them through the MySejahtera registrations or manual registrations at shops or premises visited in the area.

“The aim of the EMCO is to conduct health screenings and not security screenings or others. So, I appeal to the residents here who have yet to undergo swab tests to quickly do so,” he told reporters here today.

Yesterday, Senior Minister for Security Ismail Sabri Yaakob announced the EMCO in Medan 88, from today until Nov 25, involving 88 units of shop lots, 284 premises and 800 residents.

Zain, who is also Sepang district officer, said the installation of barbed wires and early cordoning off of the area was to prevent residents from leaving the area as what had happened at Plaza Hentian Kajang.