KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 — Tan Sri Razarudin Husain has been appointed as the new Inspector-General of Police (IGP) for a term of two years from June 23 this year to June 22, 2025.
In a statement today, the Home Ministry said that the appointment of Razarudin — currently the deputy IGP — has been assented to by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and that Razarudin will be employed on a “contract after retirement” basis.
Meanwhile, the ministry announced that Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department (NCID) director Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay has been appointed as the new deputy IGP starting from June 23 this year.
Razarudin, 61, was born on March 15, 1963, in Dengkil, Selangor and has a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (Police Studies) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
He has held various positions in the police force starting as an investigating officer in 1984 at the Kedah Crime Investigation Department (CID), and later serving as an assistant superintendent of police in Muar, Johor, until 1996.
Other positions he has held include Kudat chief of police, Sabah deputy commissioner of police, and Bukit Aman NCID director before being appointed as the deputy IGP in 2021.
Ayob Khan was born on July 27, 1966, in Kota Setar, Kedah and has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
He joined the Bukit Aman special branch in 1993 as an assistant superintendent of police and worked his way up from being the special branch's deputy commissioner of police in 2016.
After another four years in 2020, he was promoted to commissioner of police and became the Johor police chief.
Last year, he became the director of the Bukit Aman NCID and then the CID director.
The new appointments come after Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani said last Monday that he would be retiring from being IGP earlier than scheduled in his contract, which was supposed to in October.
