Worries about crime have driven up demand for private security, with the result that new housing developments are nearly always gated.
The irresistible conclusion is that Malaysians do not feel safe at home as the view shared by 97 per cent of respondents to a poll on the Home Ministry website.
The government has now changed tack, especially as crime figures are going up: from 150,000 cases reported each year from 2000 to 2004, to 211,000 last year. About 90 per cent of these are property crimes, and 10 per cent violent crimes.
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Penang and Johor are especially hard-hit. These densely populated centres are also particularly vulnerable to street crimes such as snatch thefts and muggings, accounting for just over 70 per cent of the national total.
PM Najib pledged to cut down the incidence of street crime by 20 per cent by next year. To do so, the government plans to have another 60,000 policemen on the streets over the next few years, and has also started co-opting the volunteer police corps, Rela, to beef up the numbers.
Many Malaysians blame the influx of migrant labour for the rise in lawlessness but police statistics show that only 1 to 3 per cent of crimes are committed by foreigners.
Read the full story in Malaysian Insider ( Sat Aug 1, 2009 )
The irresistible conclusion is that Malaysians do not feel safe at home as the view shared by 97 per cent of respondents to a poll on the Home Ministry website.
The government has now changed tack, especially as crime figures are going up: from 150,000 cases reported each year from 2000 to 2004, to 211,000 last year. About 90 per cent of these are property crimes, and 10 per cent violent crimes.
Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Penang and Johor are especially hard-hit. These densely populated centres are also particularly vulnerable to street crimes such as snatch thefts and muggings, accounting for just over 70 per cent of the national total.
PM Najib pledged to cut down the incidence of street crime by 20 per cent by next year. To do so, the government plans to have another 60,000 policemen on the streets over the next few years, and has also started co-opting the volunteer police corps, Rela, to beef up the numbers.
Many Malaysians blame the influx of migrant labour for the rise in lawlessness but police statistics show that only 1 to 3 per cent of crimes are committed by foreigners.
Read the full story in Malaysian Insider ( Sat Aug 1, 2009 )
2 comments:
If Polis concentrate on preventing neighbourhood crime instead of catching anti-ISA demonstators, no need to increase manpower.
Ha ha ha, I agree 100%
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