Mohd Zabri Abdul Hamid

Mohd Zabri Bin Abdul Hamid
Born	Mohd Zabri Bin Abdul Hamid unknown Tapah, Malaysia
Died	3 September 1975 Grik, Malaysia
Cause of death	Booby-trap
Nationality	Malaysian
Occupation	Police officer
Employer	Royal Malaysian Police
Known for	Victim of a booby-trap in 1975

Mohd Zabri Abdul Hamid was a police officer most remembered as a member of the deep VAT 69 which is part of the Pasukan Gerakan Khas.

Background

Mohd Zabri was born in Tapah, Perak and was the second child of his family.

Police career

Mohd Zabri commenced his career as a police officer on 1 June 1963 as a Probationary Inspector. After ending training at PULAPOL on Semarak Street, he was assigned to the Pulau Pinang Police Contingent on 18 March 1963 and then he was transferred to the Police Field Force unit (now General Operations Forces) on 29 March 1965 as the Platoon Commander. In July 1970, Zabri joined the 69th Commando Battalion and he passed the selection after being trained for 5 months. Later, he was appointed as a Commando Chief Instructor from April to August 1971 to be trained with new officers and men joining the team which is known as the 3rd Platoon VAT 69, which was located in Legap Fort, Perak.

Zabri also was committed in an operation which was known as the Ops Jemput Tiga, which jointly operated with the Malaysian Special Branch and the Indonesian Army which had special intelligence for hunting down the North Kalimantan Communist Party (PARAKU) which was located at the Sarawak-Kalimantan border. In an operation which was joined by a comprising team which included the 69th Commandos and Kostrad (Strategy Commando Army Proposal) TNI-AD and taken in for 5 months in which both teams had a successful attack on both strongholds of PARAKU's group, agility and courage, the 69th Commandos, which were led by Zabri in the battle, sparked and successfully toppled a few members of the PARAKU on the Indonesian security team.

Besides the Ops Jemput Tiga, Zabri also led the three platoons to Hulu Perak in August 1975 to intercept the communist terrorist who was involved in the murder case of four Extra Police Constable members from the Grik Police Station where the four officers were killed and their bodies were cut by communists with knives. On 3 September 1975, his units succeeded in detecting the enemy camp positions near the Grik and the occurrence of a clash between the 69th Commandos leaderships by Zabri with the communist terrorists, which possessed membership of as many as 30 to 40 enemies before the terrorists' retreat. In the battle, two officers, Corporal Sheikh Ismail and Corporal Aziz Idris, were wounded during the battle and the reinforcement to the Tek Tapong Unit from a communications message had been requested. His units then had an outcome of spot-checking on an abandoned communist camp after the battle, in which they successfully seized 6 filled backpacks of food, clothes, 2 mortars, 18 explosives, 15 food supply boxes, medicines and a few other goods. Besides, they also re-seized the 3 shotguns which were believed that were owned by the four killed Extra Police Constable members.

Death

On 3 September 1975, Zabri died because he stepped on a booby-trap which was set up by a communist terrorist while taking two wounded members to an extraction point area after an operation of hunting down the communist terrorist who murdered extra policemen who were sent to the hospital. His right leg was broken and suffered serious wounds which made him lose lots of blood. He died while giving a message to the members. Among his last messages he said, "Continue your duties... destroyed the traitors. Hunted and destroy them... although I'm leaving the world! [sic]" He was enshrined in Tapah, Perak with a full honour ceremony of the police force. Tun Haniff Omar (Inspector-General of Police), Perak Police Chief and all of the attending police officers presented last respects to the late Zabri.

As a commemorate, he was promoted as an Assistant Superintendent rank and a 69th Commando training camp in Tasik Banding (now named as Zabri Camp).^[1]

References

1. ^ Sejarah hidup Zabri Abdul Hamid

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Name	Mohd Zabri Abdul Hamid
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth	Tapah, Malaysia
Date of death	3 September 1975
Place of death	Grik, Malaysia