New Malaysia - Help Eradicate Crimes

I took the privilege to be at the GTA Open Day session on CRIME.

While it was comforting to hear our police getting more hi tech and more experienced each day in combating the bad guys, it is not comforting to know and feel that crimes seem to be on the rise.

I kept getting emails from friends to remind me for example about Indonesian gangsters going around robbing and raping women as young as 8 years old and not so young at 90 years old. Girls, please beware if you were to work and leave office late. There had been cases where security guards had become predators too.

Nowadays the non gated housing areas had fast becoming 'gated'. These newly transformed gated properties are normally manned by Napales or perhaps Bangladeshi. Is it not ironic that we have reach a stage when we have to resort to bringing in Napales and Bangladeshi to look after us. Sure speaks volumes about our faith in our own Police Force and domestic security.

Is Malaysia getting less SMARTER in warding off criminals ? We are getting more capable of producing our own criminals. We are also not able to stop foreign criminals from coming in ?

Information is power. Are the intelligence of various government agencies being shared ?

It was obvious that the crime lab personnel were not able to tackle these questions. Perhaps somebody else could, but they were there during the session.

The basic responsibility of any government is to PROVIDE PEACE AND SECURITY OF ITS CITIZENS. Peace and security are not only to be FELT, but also to be SEEN. Right now it does seem and felt that way.

Let's do our part. Contribute our ideas on how to eradicate crimes in our neighborhood. Say our piece and do our part.

My 2 cent worth of suggestions :

1) Stop using foreigners as 'security guards'. Malaysians must learn to look after Malaysians. There are sufficient Malaysians without job. What about the retired police and military personnels ? Why not employ them ?

2) Government agencies whose roles have direct and indirect link to looking after domestic security must collaborate and share high level intelligence and information to stem the traffic and movement of local and foreign criminals. Beware, the criminals may be 'paying' their way in.

3) Rehabilitate local non hard core criminals. Provide them with useful skills. Absorb them in the labor market. The Malaysian community must also learn to forgive and offer them a second chance. Personally, I am willing to contribute to some of their training. Their soft skills.

4) Malaysians need to be more watchful and report any suspicious characters or activities. These are useful Police number to keep in your hand phone : 0322626555 and 0322627555. Trust your instinct. Do not hesitate to report.