KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 — The government is enhancing national maritime security, especially along the east coast of Sabah, by adopting a comprehensive strategy that includes security measures, international collaboration, and advanced technology to tackle cross-border crimes, the Senate was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — The security situation on Sabah's east coast remains safe and well under control, despite 14 countries maintaining travel advisories and cautioning their citizens against visiting the area.

TAWAU, April 8 — A Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) personnel, who was shot in the eye in a shootout in the Kunak waters yesterday, has since lost sight in his left eye.

LAHAD DATU, March 31 — The authorities will take action against several more individuals linked to the arrest of an Israeli man with six guns at a hotel along Jalan Ampang this week.

LAHAD DATU, March 15 — The Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) special team seized 3,178,120 sticks of contraband cigarettes of various brands worth RM4.13 million in a raid on a two-storey building at Jalan Tamoi Baru here yesterday.

TAWAU, Jan 5 —A police officer from Unit D7a of the force told the High Court here today that he never tampered with the interior of a car linked to the murder of an e-hailing driver at an oil palm plantation early last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 26 — A drug syndicate leader, with the title of 'Datuk’, is among ten men held in Sabah on suspicion of being involved in the biggest drug trafficking syndicate in the state.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — The government's decision to build Maritime Region Headquarters 4 (Mawilla 4) in Bintulu, Sarawak, is to safeguard the security and importance of national assets.

LAHAD DATU, Dec 8 — The downgrading of the threat assessment of the abduction of crew for ransom in the Sulu-Celebes Seas from ‘potentially high’ to ‘moderate’ is a positive development, said Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) commander Datuk Victor Sanjos.

LAHAD DATU,  Dec 3 — Foreign embassies are welcome to visit the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) and survey the Eastern Sabah Security Zone  (ESS Zone) to assure themselves of the security level in the area concerned, said ESSCom Commander Datuk Victor Sanjos.

JOHOR BAHRU, Nov 8 — The pilot project for the single border agency (SBA) to regulate the country's 141 entry points is expected to start next year, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

KOTA KINABALU, Oct 25 — The move to rebrand the dusk-to-dawn curfew in eastern Sabah waters, to the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (ESS Zone) Movement Control Order (MCO), and to reduce the areas placed under the list, shows that the level of security is getting stronger.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — The government continues to focus on the development in the Sabah and Sarawak regions through various projects and new initiatives in the final period of the 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP).

KULIM, July 15 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today announced the approval of a RM150 million allocation for the maintenance of facilities of agencies under the Home Ministry (KDN), to ensure the comfort of the country’s security forces personnel.

LAHAD DATU, June 28 — Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) chief DCP Victor Sanjos wants surveillance and patrol operations in the Eastern Sabah Safety Zone (ESSZone) to be further intensified, including with the use of fighter jets and helicopters.

KOTA KINABALU, June 8 — Increasing the level of enforcement and integrated operations, intelligence, and building ties with the community are the three main focus areas to improve the level of security in the Eastern Sabah Secure Zone (ESSZone), says newly minted Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) commander DCP Victor Sanjos.

KOTA KINABALU, May 16 — The implementation of the curfew order in the waters of the seven districts in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZone) will be reviewed and the areas will be scaled down from time to time according to the needs, said the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.

KOTA KINABALU, March 30 — Security measures in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (EssZone) will not be relaxed even though the area is now safe and calm, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24 — The Home Ministry (KDN) and the Defence Ministry (Mindef) have been allocated RM18.5 billion and RM17.7 billion respectively, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced today.

LAHAD DATU, Dec 19 — Twenty-two illegal immigrants aged between 20 and 50 were detained during an integrated operation carried out by the Eastern Sabah Security Command (ESSCom) in the district from December 16 to December 18.