Royal Malaysia Police response to 'Why police are impotent'

Written by ACP Ramli Mohamed YoosufCPIAsia

Commentary

CPI Intro:We have been sharing with readers a response of Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) to a commentary by Dr Lim Teck Ghee on"Why military have been impotent in dealing with growing crime"(23 Jul 2012).

Interested readers have been speedy to send in their views upon a assorted points raised by PDRM in defending a central crime census interpretation as well as a steps taken to fight crime.

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RESPONSE TO "WHY POLICE ARE IMPOTENT

IN DEALING WITH GROWING CRIME"

BY DR. LIM TECK GHEE

There have been quite a series of debates newly upon a issues of crime, quite upon a correctness of central crime census interpretation as well as military potency in combating crime. Various articles as well as reports have been created with most buliding offering differing views. The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) have constantly been keeping a open abreast upon a crime incident as well as military efforts in crime prevention. In this article, PDRM would similar to to clarify pertinent issues concerning crime as well as in particular reply to a essay created by Dr. Lim Teck Ghee entitled "Why military have been impotent in dealing with growing crime" in CPI website which was published upon 23July 2012 .

Crime census interpretation expelled by a PDRM have been a tangible total of rapist cases reported to as well as investigated by a military department. These total have been auto-generated by a department's mechanis! m system , i.e. Police Reporting System (PRS). In this way, no alteration or composition to a total can be done, in order to execute a rosy picture of a crime incident as claimed by sure quarters.

The routine of camp a military inform starts with a complainant walk in to a Police Station as well as during a Enquiry Office a military crew perceived a inform as well as types it in to a mechanism using a PRS. Then, a typed inform is shown to a complainant for him/her to acknowledge it to be loyal as well as accurate. In box where he/she cannot review Bahasa Malaysia, a inform is review to him/her as well as translated if possible. The complainant will afterwards pointer a duplicate of a inform for acknowledgement. The PRS will afterwards generate a military inform series as well as a Officer-in-Charge of Police Station (OCS) classifies a censure according to a inlet of a report, either it is of a civil or rapist category. The Officer Commanding Police District (OCPD) will subsequently re-check either a inform is reasonably classified.

The PRS is linked-up around a country as well as to a Contingent as well as Bukit Aman headquarters, Criminal Intelligence Units (URJ) during these HQ levels accumulate crime census interpretation intermittently daily, weekly, monthly, as well as so on.

Since a inception of a PRS, PDRM have stopped compiling crime census interpretation manually, to illustrate a subject of doctored total should not arise during all. Dr. Lim might determine which while crime approval have caused some-more victims to come forward to lodge reports for military investigation, there have been instances crime goes unreported for reasons well known to a victim. These have been a supposed dim total of crime. But so prolonged as a box is reported as well as duly investigated, a open can be positive which it is reflected in a central crime statistics.

The PRS is monitored every day during a District, Contingent as well as Bukit Aman HQ levels. Senior office! rs durin g these levels regularly check a correctness of a classification around a complement itself. As a matter of fact, this use is very critical which disciplinary actions will be taken opposite those officers who unsuccessful to systematise cases accordingly as well as those who refused or unsuccessful to take down a inform will be dealt with disciplinary procedure.

In short, PDRM would similar to to assure as well as reassure a open which you do not resort to mean action a open by personification tricks with crime figures. Obviously such furious as well as unfounded assumptions have been opposite a seductiveness of a military to offer a rakyat better. All crime interpretation as well as census interpretation generated inside of a PDRM complement have been audited as well as verified by Pricewaterhouse Coopers Malaysia (PwC). Therefore all total presented by PDRM have been valid as well as reliable in accordance with a standards of a veteran auditors as well as not something of our own creation. In light of this, it is definitely not loyal to explain which a stream crime rate is a highest you have ever seen. Based upon crime census interpretation over a past 10 years, a highest series of cases was available in 2008 with 211,645 cases.

With aggressive crime impediment measures taken by a stream tip leadership of a force, crime rates have been brought down in a subsequent years. The doing of NKRA Crime Prevention initiatives, in particular, has successfully helped to reduce crime index to 177,520 in 2010 as well as 157,891 in 2011.

To gauge how a open feel about their safety as well as their confidence in a military service, PEMANDU has consecrated a private general company, TNS Research International to control a open opinion consult from Dec 2009 to date. The consult is conducted with a representation size of 1,212 respondents of age 18 as well as upon tip of who have been randomly picked proportionately according to state distribution. The mode of consult is face-to! -face in terviews.

The ultimate consult results for a duration Jan to Dec 2011 suggested which a public's "fear of being a victim of crime" have increasing marginally from 52% in Jan 2011 to 52.9% in Dec 2011. This slight enlarge could be attributed to a actuality which a little cases have generated some-more open interest, generally when they concerned a "series" or "pattern" of specific crime such as deadly snatch-theft cases. The reports of such crimes have in spin formed open opinions upon a "state of crime in a country", hence induction an enlarge in a fright of becoming a victim.

On a alternative hand, a open satisfaction towards a performance of military use has shown a poignant improvement, i.e., from 56.6% in Jan 2011 to 70.5% in Dec 2011.

In his article, Dr. Lim done a little valid recommendations as to how to fight crime some-more effectively. In fact, numerous measures have been taken by PDRM to plunge into a crime problems, together with those mentioned by Dr Lim. First as well as foremost, a force regularly give a highest priority to tackling crime, right from a IGP to a lowest ranked military officers. We additionally acquire bona fide criticisms as well as recommendations which will help us improve.

The force is in a routine of deploying some-more crew to work upon a belligerent by our "civilianization" exercise where desk works which have been some-more clerical or executive in inlet have been reserved to civilian staff, as well as a relieved uniformed crew have been transferred to a ground. In addition, all officers as well as men, together with those who have been office-based, have been compulsory to patrol a street underneath a NKRA initiatives. For instance, our ultimate "Omnipresence" crime impediment plan was launched not long ago where 300 uniformed crew from a ranks of Constables to Superintendent have been deployed to 10 strategic locations in KL as well as PJ daily. This is upon tip of a regular beat as well as patrol duties carri! ed out b y a particular Police Station personnel.

With courtesy to a idea of Dr. Lim to take upon a proceed ofBroken Windows,PDRM have similar projects calledProgram Gerakan Tumpuan (PGT)andSafeCityProgramme.

PGT has been implemented given 2005 with a design to plunge into amicable problems as well as crime, teach some-more values in a community as well as emanate larger rapport in between residents as well as supervision agencies as well as non supervision organizations (NGO).

In this programme, efforts were focused upon a operational as well as strategic standpoint of policing, where resources have been managed optimally with officers being redeployed to a streets. The combination of this redeployment of resources as well as brand new tactical initiatives have resulted in a early detection of crime in sure populated as well as business areas.

Some of a issues addressed underneath PGT have been associated to drugs, robbery as well as waylay thefts. The success of a PGT depended upon a cooperation of a assorted organizations which has brought positive changes in areas of implementation. As a indicate of reference, a investigate conducted in a San Peng area by a National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN) in 2006 showed a decrease in amicable problems as well as crime in this area.

As for a Safe City Programme (SCP), it was authorized by a supervision in 2004 with a categorical design to help crime impediment generally in crime disposed areas, privately to giveaway cities from destruction to properties as well as lives, similar to crime, burglary as well as robbery; vandalism; amicable as well as moral problems; as well as accidents inside or outside buildings.

Under a SCP, twenty-three crime preventive measures have been introduced as well as installation of CCTVs during op! en space s as well as crime disposed areas have contributed to a rebate in waylay theft. CCTV locations to be identified by GIS mapping of crime disposed areas as well as to be monitored by PDRM.

This programme has perceived a Special Achievement in Geographical Integrated Systems (GIS) Award by ESRI (A US based association specializing in project consultancy as well as doing services) during a International User Conference in San Diego upon 25th of July, 2012. The endowment was a form of approval to a collaboration in between PDRM as well as a particular agencies in implementing a Safe City Monitoring System.

In sum, you have no doubt a author (Dr Lim) has all a good intention in his penetrating observations, but regrettably they do not simulate a tangible state of affairs of a assorted efforts as well as undertakings taken both by a supervision as well as PDRM to fight a ever becoming different landscape of crime as well as criminality. It is in this vigor PDRM is committed to relentlessly stability to protect a hold up as well as property of Malaysians 24/7; sleet or shine. In a suggestion of understanding as well as caring Malaysians, you know which this is possible.

signed

ACP Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf

Assistant Chief Inspector-General Secretariat

(Public Relations)

Bukit Aman

thirty Jul 2012

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