Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail (left) said last week AKPS chief Shuhaily Zain will return to the police force after he was charged with two counts of assaulting two policemen at KLIA in September.PETALING JAYA: Home minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail says the government has yet to discuss who will replace Shuhaily Zain as the director-general of the Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS).

Saifuddin had said last week the ministry decided to end Shuhaily’s secondment to AKPS and return him to the police force after he was charged with two counts of assaulting two policemen at KLIA in September.

Today, he said any action involving civil servants facing investigations and criminal charges must be handled in accordance with established civil servant regulations.