Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy has demanded an apology from Terengganu police chief Aidi Ismail over his remarks which linked gangsterism to race.

Failing which, he said, Aidi should be removed from his present position.

“Racial profiling of crimes or equating crimes with particular ethnic groups in Malaysia is something dangerous.

“If such profiling comes from senior government officials, then there is a cause for major alarm,” he added in a media statement this afternoon.

Yesterday, Aidi said one of the reasons Terengganu was free of gangsterism was because the majority of the population consisted of Malays...