Serial Sec Guard Slashers in USJ

RESIDENTS in USJ2, Subang Jaya, are fearing for their safety after a series of attacks on the security guards hired by the USJ2 residents association. In the latest incident, a security guard was slashed by a group of five men at about three o’clock on Friday morning. “This was the second incident after two guards were beaten up in mid-November while they were patrolling the neighbourhood. One of the guards recognised the perpetrators from the group in the earlier incident,” said USJ2 Residents Association secretary H.K. Sidhu.

“They came again on Sunday afternoon and gave a rude warning to the guards. The five men drove around in an orange Proton Gen-2 but the guards did not manage to get the car registration number even though they gave chase,” she said. No safety: The guardhouse at USJ2, where the guards were threatened by the same group that attacked them last week and in November last year. There has been a series of burglaries and snatch thefts in the area, with at least three cases recorded by the association each month.

Resident Jani Baba, 68, who has been staying there since 1990, said the recent cases involving the guards worried the residents. “We are not so worried about the petty cases like snatch thefts. What’s alarming is that burglars are coming around with weapons like parang. Sometimes, they enter the houses even when the people are home,” he said. Jani, who started a USJ2 group on the Internet to share information with fellow residents, said they were trying to beef up security in the area but were finding it hard because not many residents were in support of the gated-and-guarded scheme.

Slashed: USJ2 security guard Ram Kumar was slashed on his palms during the incident that occured at about 3am on Friday.

“Some people like having guards patrol the area but are not willing to pay the RM50 a month. If more people chipped in, we could even reduce the monthly fee but our main concern is the safety of our family and homes,” he said. Sidhu said the RA was in the process of printing leaflets to distribute to each house so that residents were aware of the happenings in the neighbourhood.

Subang Jaya assemblyman Hannah Yeoh said she was aware of the incidents and similar ones that have taken place in Taman Perumahan Perindustrian Sime UEP, USJ3 and SS19. “The modus operandi of the various cases sound the same, where the security guards have been attacked. The police are aware of the matter and are investigating,” she said. She advised residents to have the number of their nearest police station at hand so that they could call the police if something suspicious was going on in their neighbourhood.

“Residents should also watch out for one another in their housing area, especially their neighbours,” she said.