Juvenile detainees get locked together with adults in the event of overcrowding at police lockups, an Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) hearing was told today.

The officer in charge of the Shah Alam centralised lockup facility, ASP Mazhar Mohamad, admitted that this is a serious breach in procedure but the situation cannot be helped because he could not turn the detainees away.

“Most lockups are like that, actually,” he told the EAIC inquiry today, adding that male and female detainees may be locked together too, in such situations...