KUALA LUMPUR, June 22 — The appointments of Tan Sri Razarudin Husain as the new inspector-general of police and Datuk Ayub Khan Mydin Pitchay as his deputy will usher in a new chapter for the Royal Malaysia Police.
Razarudin, 60, was born in Dengkil, Selangor, and joined the force in 1982 as a 19-year-old. From an investigating officer in 1984 attached to the Kedah criminal investigations department, he attained the rank of assistant superintendent.
In 2000, he joined the Kluang District Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department before continuing his studies at the Cheras PDRM College.
After holding various posts in Kedah and Sabah, he was appointed as Kudat district police chief and served for three years there. He returned to the Bukit Aman CID in Special Operations D8 with the rank of superintendent and continued his studies.
Upon completing his Master’s degree, Razarudin was promoted to assistant commissioner of police and made assistant director of special investigations at Bukit Aman.
After his promotion to senior assistant commissioner of police, he was deployed in Penang as its head of CID. Razarudin was then made a deputy commissioner of police and served as deputy police commissioner of Sabah in 2016, before being appointed as Perak deputy police chief two years after that.
He was subsequently promoted to commissioner of police upon his appointment as the Perak police chief. In September 2020, Razarudin was appointed director of the Bukit Aman Narcotics Criminal Investigation Department.
During this time Razarudin was a key figure in the country’s fight against drugs. Many drug rings and labs were raided by the narcotics police under his tenure. In 2021 the police seized almost RM1 billion worth of drugs in raids nationwide they reported.
During the movement control order (MCO), the police busted a drug smuggling and distribution syndicate with the arrest of 11 men and seizure of various types of drugs worth RM34.1 million following a series of raids in Penang, Kedah and Perak on September 3.
Following that on December 22, 2021 he was appointed as deputy IGP for two years. He was supposed to retire this year but his contract will be extended for two years following his announcement as the replacement for Tan Sri Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani, who will retire next month as the IGP or four months ahead of schedule.
The new deputy IGP, Datuk Seri Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, is the current Bukit Aman Criminal Investigations Department director.
Ayob previously made a name for himself with the Special Branch’s counter-terrorism division, where he was at the forefront of the hunt for the Islamic State (IS) recruits who joined the conflict in Syria back in 2015.
As the Special Branch Counter-Terrorism (E8) principal assistant director, Ayob led the crackdown on the domestic activities of Islamic State militants and other terrorists.
Known for his no-nonsense approach, Ayob graduated from UKM with a degree in Information Technology. He joined the Bukit Aman special branch in 1993 as an assistant superintendent of police and worked his way up to leading it as a deputy commissioner of police in 2016.
In 2020, he was promoted to commissioner of police and became the Johor police chief. Last year, he was made the director of the Bukit Aman NCID, and then the CID director.
Just prior to that appointment, he received a death threat believed to be from three Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members, which was dismissed by then-IGP Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador as just borne out of anger.
Yesterday, the Home Ministry said that the appointment of Razarudin — currently the deputy IGP — has received the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's royal assent, and that Razarudin will be employed on a “contract after retirement” basis.
