Those who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender will not be admitted into the Royal Malaysia Police even if they meet other qualifications, because such sexualities were not accepted in Malaysia, he was quoted as saying today.

“Till today, the LGBT culture is not accepted in this country, so based on that principle, we still maintain the current quota for men and women.

“I am not the one who dictates this culture, but it is the acceptance of our community…we just follow our ways here,” he was quoted as saying.

“If they have the qualification, they have to adhere to the practices accepted in this country,” Noor Rashid told reporters at the Police Training Centre in Jalan Semarak.

He had been asked about the Malaysian police to growing acceptance of LGBT people in the West. Last year Tamil Nadu state in India accepted its first trans-woman police officer, K. Prithika Yashini, according to the Hindu newspaper.