The bloody mugging of Bersih steering committee member Wong Chin Huat while jogging near his home in Section 18, Petaling Jaya this morning, and the serious case of Bandar Kinrara, Puchong teacher Teoh Soo Kim, 51, fighting for her life after she suffered severe head injuries and lost consciousness in an abduction on Wednesday are gruesome reminders to Malaysians that the Najib administration has failed in one of its most important tasks – to reduce crime and to eradicate the fear of crime among Malaysians.
It is no use the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the CEO of Pemandu and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Idris Jala boasting about Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and National Key Result Areas (NKRA) successes, such as claiming that the overall crime index for 2011 had dropped by 11.1%, while street crime decreased significantly by 39.7% compared with 35% in 2010 – and a marked improvement from the 15% reduction in street crime set under the NKRA in 2010 – when Malaysians still do not feel safe from the fear of crime whether in the privacy of their homes, or outside in the streets and public places.
The mobilisation of over 14,00 police personnel on April 28 to deal with the peaceful Bersih 3.0 rally, and the continued demonisation of 200,000 Malaysians regardless of race, religion, class, region, age or gender who had gathered peacefully for a common national cause for a clean election have made the failure of the Najib government to reduce crime and eradicate the fear of crime among Malaysians in the urban areas even more unacceptable.
Seven years after the Dzaiddin Police Royal Commission of Inquiry which made 125 recommendations in 2005 to transform the Malaysian police force into an efficient, incorruptible, professional world-class police service focussed on three core functions to reduce crime, eradicate corruption and protect human rights, the Malaysian police force has still to undergo a total change of its mindset to transform its function from regime policing to democratic policing – i.e. changing its priority from protecting the government, Ministers and leaders of the day to protecting the citizenry and their fundamental rights, including the fundamental right to a low crime rate and to be free from crime, as well as the human rights which a modern citizen is entitled in a democratic society.
The alphabet soup of GTP, NKRAs, ETPs, PTPs etc popularised by the Najib premiership has no meaning to ordinary Malaysians who want to know what the government is doing to ensure that Wong Chin Huat can jog safely near his home in Section 18 PJ and citizens like Teoh Soo Kim can safely go about her work and life without fear of being a victim of a dastardly criminal attack.
Let Hishammuddin and the Inspector-General of Police tell Malaysians what they are doing to deliver low crime rate and eradicate the fear of crime among Malaysians!
The Home Minister is deploying the police for the wrong purpose (to threaten protesters and set up road blocks) instead of fighting crime. There is little surprise that public security deteriorates.
That is why Najib, Muhyiddin and other UMNO and BN politicians go about with many, many bodyguards.
What is really gruesome is that while news of this crime was still spreading he held a rally for youth where he asked them to believe in UMNO-Perkasa/BN evolution of change – while an UMNO stalwart is charging UMNO of stuffing foreigner in electoral roll and ballot box..
Beijing felt safer. Shanghai felt safer. Hk felt safer. Singapore felt safer. Umno feels supreme. Huh? Something is wrong here. Hmmmm. Let me repeat. Beijing felt saf.. Huh? What? Oh
///It is no use the Home Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein and the CEO of Pemandu and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk Seri Idris Jala boasting about Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and National Key Result Areas (NKRA) successes, such as claiming that the overall crime index for 2011 had dropped by 11.1%, while street crime decreased significantly by 39.7% compared with 35% in 2010 – and a marked improvement from the 15% reduction in street crime set under the NKRA in 2010 – when Malaysians still do not feel safe from the fear of crime whether in the privacy of their homes, or outside in the streets and public places.///–Kit
The quoted statistics cannot be true. Government lies with statistics. Fior example Najib claims that he intends to sell off a GLC company to raise equity share for Malays, and any company with 51% Malay ownership, of his choice, will be entitled. If the equity share of GLCs has been properly accounted by race, then Malays would have a 60% share of it. How than can Najib claim that a 51% Malay owned company taking over from GLC would increase Malays equity. Najib is clear that GLCs now accounts for zero (0) per cent to Malays, and so when it goes to a company with Malay ownership, Malays equity capital increases. That logic only shows that Najib’s government compiling equity statistics by race lies with statistics. Thus government statistics cannot be trusted. NEP has long ago since 1990 achieved the 30% target. But BN government has simply lied to keep NEP going.
The police force is used by UMNO against the opposition, and not for fighting and preventing crime in this country. This is why crime is on the increase in all states. The only way to bring back the integrity and effectiveness of the police force is to remove UMNO from power.
In Singapore the chances of one becoming a victim of crime is as remote as winning the 1st prize in the Big Sweep Lottery. Same cannot be said in Malaysia where getting robbed is as easy as winning RM3 in the Scratch N Win. Singapore police work to keep the country and its people safe. PDRM work for UMNO only but are paid by the people ( taxpayers ) LKY built up Singapore to become a world class nation whereas we have Mahathir to thank for all the hardships we are going through.