They were also found to be operating beyond the permitted working capacity.
City police chief Mohd Zaidi Abdullah said 12 factory workers were also compounded for not adhering to health protocols such as scanning the MySejahtera app, among others, in the exercise dubbed as “Op Patuh”.
Together with the health ministry, Kota Kinabalu City Hall and Rela, he said police held spot checks at 10 factories manufacturing steel items, and plastic and polystyrene products, located in the Manggatal and Inanam industrial areas.
He added that most of the factories that were penalised claimed they did not fully understand the current SOPs being imposed.
“We will carry out this operation from time to time until the Covid-19 situation is resolved,” he told reporters after the operation.
Zaidi said the team had also visited eight other factories in the same vicinity yesterday where all were found to be in compliance with the regulations.
In Selangor, Shah Alam deputy district police chief Ramsay Embol said five compound notices totalling RM50,000 were issued to employers for operating without a Miti letter, exceeding the 60% capacity and operating despite being a non-essential service.
“Six compound notices for RM2,000 each were issued to workers for failing to scan their body temperature while a car workshop in Bukit Jelutong and a plastic manufacturing factory in Section 16 were ordered to close immediately,” he said when met at Shah Alam district police headquarters today.
Meanwhile, Kuala Langat district police chief Ahmad Ridhwan Mohd Nor@Saleh said two factories in the district were fined yesterday for not providing temperature scanners. The names of workers were also not on the Miti list.
In Johor, 77 compound notices totalling RM770,000 were issued for SOP non-compliance — 48 to companies or owners of premises and 29 to employees or customers.
Johor police chief Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, in a statement, today said four premises were ordered to close immediately while eight were compounded for exceeding the 60% permitted capacity and misusing the Miti approval letter.
Ayob Khan said the compound notices were issued following 22 operations during which 100 factories, 14 business premises, three supermarkets and three bus terminals were inspected, adding that 503 officers and staff of several government agencies were involved in the operations.
In Pahang, Bentong district police chief Zaiham Mohd Kahar said nine local factory workers, aged between 20 and 55, were issued compound fines of RM1,500 each for failing to scan the MySejahtera QR code at work.
In addition, 10 foreigners from Bangladesh, Pakistan and China, aged between 20 and 40, were detained for failing to scan the MySejahtera QR code and for immigration-related offences.
He said two factory owners were each fined RM10,000 when the plants were found operating with a workforce of over 60% during the Op Patuh inspection in Bentong district yesterday.
In Penang, 24 compound notices were issued yesterday following checks on 309 business premises and 136 factories in the state.
Penang police headquarters, in a statement, said two premises and a factory were ordered to close for failing to comply with SOPs.