
A handing over of duty ceremony was held at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters today, witnessed by Bukit Aman management director Azmi Abu Kassim.
Abu Samah will be acting in that post until the new city police chief, Shuhaily Zain, reports for duty.
Shuhaily is currently the Penang police chief, while Abu Samah has been promoted to Kedah deputy police chief effective May 22.
Abu Samah is concurrently the acting Kuala Lumpur deputy police chief until the new appointment for the post is decided by the Royal Malaysia Police top management.
At the same ceremony, Sentul police chief Beh Eng Lai, who has been promoted to Kuala Lumpur crime prevention and community safety department head, officially handed over his duties to his successor, Ahmad Sukarno Zahari.