KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 -- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability is looking into delegating some power to the police as concerns mount over toxic e-wastes being dumped illegally here.

Its minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad told the Dewan Rakyat this morning that Putrajaya is also considering legislating a specific Act to deal with waste import amid growing calls for tougher measures to deal with criminal syndicates behind most of the unlawful waste processing facilities.

Putrajaya has ramped up enforcement that led to dozens of raids on unlicensed premises suspected of processing electronic wastes in the last few months, acting on tip offs that these syndicates continue to take in tonnes of discarded electronic devi...