Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein blamed the country's high crime rate on the demonisation of institutions such as the police.
He said this in Parliament yesterday evening, immediately drawing stinging criticisms from members of the Opposition.
"Institutions such as the police force are made to be seen as irresponsible, as bad when they are also at the same time just trying to do their jobs. Besides PDRM, the delay in the various trials and judging process is also one of the factors for the escalation of the nation's crime rate," said Hishammuddin.
He said one of the ways to deal with the matter is to speed up the legal process.
He also identified four major states in the country as havens for criminal activities — Penang, Selangor, the Federal Territory and Johor. However, he said that the crime wave in Selangor and the Federal Territory has gone down drastically due to measures taken by the ministry as well as the police.
Among these measures are the increase in police presence and surveillance in 50 identified hot spots (crime-riddled areas). This has apparently been effective in minimising the number of criminal cases.
Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua hit out at this plan, saying that while crime in the hot spots had indeed decreased, the crime wave in the other "peaceful" areas in the country had in effect increased as police officers from these stations were relocated to help assist those in the hot spot areas.
The government also plans to install CCTV cameras in several areas..
"Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) plans to install an additional 100 CCTV cameras to the existing 82 units in Kuala Lumpur by the year 2010. A total of 496 units will be installed by the Local Government Ministry (JKT) in all the states in Peninsular Malaysia," stated the Home Minister.
The police will also be given RM90 million to upgrade facilities and police stations throughout the country.
DAP secretary-general Lim Kit Siang lashed out at Hishammuddin for failing to provide a complete sense of security to the public.
"In the Home Ministry website there is an online poll which states 90 per cent of visitors to the site do not feel safe at all with regards to the crime rate in Malaysia.
"No one wants to politicise people's safety. We need to admit that this country's crime problem is serious," said Lim.
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For the 1st time in Malaysia history, the Home Minister felt so insecured that he needed a senior police officer from Bukit Aman assigned to him !!! What more can we expect from him ?
In other democratic Countries, when a department head is incapable of doing his job, he would have to step down and apologize to the public! Taiwan is a very good example of this!
In Bolehland, when the Minister is not doing his job, yet he can open up his big mouth to spew all the humbugs! What a shame this Hisham to his 'father of unity'?! Hopelessly uncouth minister a lump of stinking bullshit!
Useless Offspring I beg to differ. It is simply the police plain efficiency, poor enforcement, poor deployment of man power (use to enforce against harmless protest), corruption and the practice of selective tutup mata are the causes of this Bolihland serious crime problem. And the police is demonise by the raayat because of the above reasons. This useless offspring with such low intelligence I wonder how he can be elected as a VP of UMNO and a member of his cousin's cabinet.
Hisahmuddin is a major embarrassment to Malaysia. For most people, one would advice counting to ten before speaking. Hishamuddin should count to a million and spare the country the shame.
The Police have a bad reputation which is well deserved. UMNO uses the Police as a political tool to suppress opposing views. The Police should not be involved in politics.
Unfortunately, most of the high posts in the Police are held by men without the strength of character to resist UMNO's misuse of the Police.
The rakyat suffers daily from corruption in the police. Most people do not even bother to report crimes because it is futile to expect the police to do anything.
But the Police appears to be super efficient when it comes to acting on Opposition figures. Keeping the peace and maintaining the safety of the public is very low on our Police priority.
For once in your miserable life, dear Hishamuddin please take the time to actually work on a problem and come out with more sensible and practical solutions to the problem. Changing the image of the police does not change anything in the quality of the police
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