The federal government must reconsider the Selangor State Government’s proposal to have an auxiliary police force under the administration of the State government in view of an alarming increase of crime rates in this State.
Back in February 2011, the State government has expressed its view but the Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein took it lightly. In fact, he rejected the State government’s proposal by reason of the crime rates in Selangor are at a decreasing level.
In reality, people still feel unsafe and crimes are alarming at their residential and work places even though statistic shows a decrease in crime rates. Evidentially, there were media workers who are often victims of crime, which is an outright rejection towards such claim on a reduction of crime rates in Selangor.
Wouldn’t it be better if Federal government could co-operate with the State government and PBT to fight against crime than blaming the media for sensationalising crime news?
Interpol recommended a ratio of 1 police officer to 250 residents as acceptable. According to the 2011 statistic, Selangor has 11,700 officers where 30% are on duty for every session. This means in every session the ratio is 1: 1,424, a level which is far from the acceptable level set by interpol.
To circumvent the disproportion of the ratio, the State government has offered to provide auxiliary police force as proposed since July 2010. Furthermore, MBPJ has proposed this matter in 2009 but has yet to attain approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs although the allocation has been prepared for in Budget 2013.
At this moment, MBPJ has allocated RM5,000 per year to any community that wish to held a Community Police programme but it has to be boosted to a higher level whereby the original proposal is to establish an auxiliary police force in order to reduce crimes in Selangor.