JB gets Bukit Aman attention
JOHOR BARU: Bukit Aman is placing a lot of emphasis on Johor and particularly this city, which accounts for about 70% of the crimes recorded in the state, said Deputy Internal Security Minister Fu Ah Kiow.
The Johor police, he said, faced a shortage of manpower and facilities.
“They are trying their best to bring the crime rate down, but are held back by these problems.
“The average ratio of a policeman to residents in the country is 1:411 but in Johor, it is 1:568.
The number does not include the floating population or people who move in and out of the state.
“If we take these into account, the
ratio could be as high as 1:800,” he told reporters after visiting the state police headquarters here yesterday.
“As such, the police are deploying personnel from low crime rate areas to those with a high rate to counter staff shortage.”
Fu said the police had received approval for recruiting another 24,000 personnel into the force nationwide but so far, only 10,000 were recruited due to limited training capacity.
He said Johor had received an additional 170 patrol vehicles.
“We cannot keep adding vehicles if there is no one to man them,” he said, when asked how many more patrol cars would be made available to the police here.
He added that two new police district headquarters would also be built to replace the current ones.
On another matter, Fu said many people who claimed that the police did not act on their reports could have misunderstood matters.
“After lodging police reports, it is hard for the people to get feedback on the action taken by the police. They think the police are not doing anything about it,” he said.
Fu said some of the cases reported were civil cases, and did not fall under the purview of the police.
“In future, people who lodge such reports will be advised to file civil suits,” he said.
1:800! Only 1 policeman for every 800 residents. And u retards wonder why crime rate so high?