The arrest was confirmed by Bukit Aman’s sexual crimes division, Harian Metro reported.

“The suspect has been remanded to assist in the investigation,” Siti Kamsiah Hassan, the division’s principal assistant director, was quoted as saying.

The girl filed a report at the USJ8 police station. She said she was staying with a male friend at the hotel on Wednesday night when the policeman and her father found them and forced their way into the room, according to a source quoted by Harian Metro..

The source said that the girl was molested when the policeman was inspecting the room.