page_title: Pasukan Gerakan Khas
section_title: Publicly known missions
hierarchical_section_title: Pasukan Gerakan Khas / Missions / Publicly known missions
caption_attribution_description: English: The PGK Detachment A using the battering ram to broke through the door while other members standby to rushed into the kill house during the CQC drill. The unit also involved in an operations to recapture a Singaporean Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist leader, Mas Selamat Kastari in Kampung Tawakal, Skudai, Johore. Taken by me at PGK A Special Operations Killing House, Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. Deutsch: Die PGK Ablösung-A mit dem Rammbock durch die Tür kam, während andere Mitglieder Standby stürzte in den kill Haus während der Nahkampf zu bohren. Das Gerät auch in einem Betrieb beteiligt zu einen Singapurer Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Terroristenführer, Mas Selamat Kastari in Kampung Tawakal, Skudai, Johore zurückzuerobern. Taken by mich PGK Eine spezielle Operationen töten Haus, Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. Русский: Подразделение А PGK выламывает дверь во время отработки тактики ведения ближнего боя.
context_page_description: Pasukan Gerakan Khas is a special operations command of the Royal Malaysia Police. The PGK has two distinct sub-units; the Special Actions Unit and the 69 Commando Battalion.
  Operators of UTK and VAT 69 are specially trained to intervene in high-risk events like hostage and barricade situations by hostile forces, especially terrorists and/or criminals. It originally had over 4,000 full-time operators, but its actual size and organisation are classified. Both units commonly function as a high-level national tactical team in extremely sensitive or dangerous situations.
context_section_description: 1970s: 69 Commandos led by ASP Zabri Abd Hamid together with Indonesian Army KOSTRAD combated the PARAKU in Kalimantan jungles.
  October 1985: The Special Actions Unit (UTK) was involved in the Pudu Prison siege, where a doctor and a medical assistant was held hostage by six armed convicts led by Jimmy Chua in Pudu Jail, Kuala Lumpur. Six days later, the hostages were successfully rescued, while Chua was captured and was sentenced to death.
  29 June 1993: UTK stormed a hiding place of P. Kalimuthu, a gangster also known as Bentong Kali, at Medan Damansara, Selangor. In the shoot-out with the police, Kalimuthu was killed.
  1994: Rizal Aleh and his father, part of one of the Philippine MNLF organisations, escaped from the Philippines and hid in a village of Sabah where he started piracy activities. 69 Commandos led by DSP Mohd Noor Razak conducted an operation named Ops Bamboo II to infiltrate his organisation. In a struggle, Mohd Noor was shot by Rizal in the leg. Rizal and his father were captured and sentenced by the National Court after pleading guilty for his criminal activities in Sabah. Later, both Rizal and his father were extradited to the Philippines.
  1998: The PGK and the Grup Gerak Khas were deployed to provide security and were on standby for hostage rescue, close protection and counter-terrorism duties during the 1998 Commonwealth Games held at National Stadium, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur on 11 to 21 September 1998.
  20 September 1998: In the twilight hours, by orders from the then Prime Minister to the Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Rahim Noor, 69 Commando operatives led by Inspector Mazlan arrested the ex-Deputy Prime Minister Dato' Sri Anwar Ibrahim in his home 18 days after his ejection from the Cabinet, for inciting anti-Mahathir reforms in Kuala Lumpur. He was initially arrested under the Internal Security Act and was subsequently charged with, and convicted of, corruption and sodomy. Six years later in 2004, when he was serving his jail sentence for sodomy after completing his sentence for corruption, he was released when his sodomy conviction was overturned by the Federal Court.
  18 January 2000: The PGK was involved in an operation to arrest the Gang Steyr, an armed criminal group led by an ex-special forces soldier named Mohd Hizan Jaafar, along with five men after they robbed a bank in Sri Serdang Road, Selangor. During the operation, Mohd Hizan and Abu Hasan were killed at Majidee Malay Village and two more were killed in a shoot-out with the police at Kempas Toll Plaza, Johor Bahru. The operation recovered 4 Steyr AUG rifles, one Smith & Wesson .22 handgun, one Remington shotgun, 85 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition, three rounds of .22 ammunition, a few bullet shells and RM 291,000. The police also launched an operation to hunt two other members of the gang.
  2001: Arrested two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) suspects in the list of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Yazid Sufaat and Suhaimi Mokhtar. The two suspects were detained at Kamunting Detention Center under the Internal Security Act 1960 related to involvement with the activities of JI and al-Qaeda in conducting the September 11 attacks and Bali bombings.
  2002: Arrested six Jemaah Islamiyah suspect terrorists, Dr Abdullah Daud, Shamsuddin Sulaiman, Mat Shah Mohd Satray, Abdul Murad Sudin, Zaini Zakaria and Zainun Rashid.
  12 September 2002: Ahmad Mohd Arshad, also known as Mat Komando, 37, the leader of Gang 13, then No. 1 on the Malaysian Most-Wanted-Criminal list for 52 armed robberies involving about RM 2.5 million, armed assault, and illegal possession of firearms (among others), was known to be hiding in Kampung Hujung Keton, a village in the state of Kedah on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Armed with intelligence gathered from surveillance and villagers, ten police officers from 69 Commando anti-terror police, supported by the GOF paramilitary police, cordoned off the area and stormed a hut in the village around 6.30 am. In the ensuing shoot-out, Mat Komando was shot in the head and left ribs and killed. The police sei
caption: A UTK officer using a battering ram to performing a door breaching during the CQC drill.
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