KUALA LUMPUR - Former Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan has indicted the authorities of stealing facts from the open over the country's crime rate, claiming which open confidence has right away reached the "worrying stage".
In an talk withThe Malaysian Insider, Musa told the supervision which there was no need to mask crime figures, pointing out which if crime was not upon the rise, top-ranking officials as well as ministers would not need to hire bodyguards.
"The open needs to know the truth, there is no need to hide when it comes to crime. When I was the IGP, I regularly spoke about taking flight crime," he forked out yesterday.
Musa, who has served in the Royal Malaysian Police for over four decades, was the country's IGP for four years from 2006 prior to he was succeeded by Tan Sri Ismail Omar upon Sep 13, 2010.
But Pemandu & Home Ministry insists crime is down
Despite the new spate of assaults, robberies as well as kidnappings, the police, supervision efficiency unit Performance Management as well as Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) as well as the Home Ministry have hold upon to census data display which the country's crime rate has dipped considerably since initiatives underneath the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) were put in place dual years ago.
PEMANDU's "Reduce Crime NKRA" unit hold the media briefing yesterday to reduce open fears upon the issue as well as released uninformed census data display which the rate forsaken again in the first five months of the year by 10! .1 per c ent.
It had formerly released total to show which index crime had forsaken by 11.1 per cent from 2010 to last year whilst street crime dipped 39.7 per cent in the same period.
The agency even appealed to the media for benefit to assistance correct the public's perception of crime, propelling for some-more "balanced reporting".
Appoint 3rd celebration to hope for statistics
But Musa appeared to dismiss the total as well as suggested instead which the supervision designate the third celebration to control an independent examination of the country's crime rate as well as produce the own statistics.
"During my time, I asked Universiti Sains Malaysia to hope for crime statistics," he said.
At yesterday's PEMANDU briefing, unit executive Eugene Teh cited several surveys conducted by unfamiliar pollsters, which he pronounced further supports the agency's crime statistics.
Among others, Teh forked to the ultimate Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) consult which showed which open fright of crime in Malaysia forsaken 3.9 per cent from 58.5 per cent in December 2009 to 54.6 per cent in May this year.
Musa suggested improvements in police operations as one of the measures to assistance reduce crime, observant the force could change the crime impediment methods to "intelligence procurement".
"We need to get intel report first. If the report is great in conditions of the procurement, as well as you work closely with unfamiliar enforcers, afterwards you would be able to ascertain the background of the chairman most earlier to guard them.
"It is the same within the country... you need to guard local gangsters as well as criminals," he said.
Economic predicament the factor
The gifted former tip cop added which the similar direction in taking flight crime was now being felt in countries opposite the creati! on due t o the mercantile predicament in Europe.
"Globalisation creates it tough for the nation to prevent crime; it causes many foreigners, whose backgrounds you do not know, to come in the country... generally those from Nigeria.
"These have been the little of the reasons behind the rise in the crime rate here," he said.
Despite the steady assurances as well as census data from the authorities, Malaysians, generally women, appear to be unconvinced as well as have grown some-more uncertain when out upon the streets.
Even the country's expatriate village has weighed in upon the issue as well as pronounced they were increasingly aroused for their safety here, generally after the abduction of 12-year-old Dutch schoolboy Nayati Moodliar, who was snatched whilst on foot to propagandize earlier this year, strike tellurian headlines.
In the ultimate high-profile crime to be reported, the mom of the Penang federal lawmaker was robbed at knifepoint in the pre-dawn home invasion in George Town.
Other cases which done headlines in new weeks embody an ATM spoliation at the hypermarket which saw about RM1.2 million carted away, the carjacking as well as abduction of the Singaporean family in Johor as well as the Malacca clerk who died after she fell off her motorbike after being pounded by dual men.
Following the string of ATM robberies, banks have been also right away mulling moving their ATMs located in malls, supermarkets, petrol as well as rail stations to pick locations.
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