We almost pengsan when Tan Sri Musa Hassan presented us with the figures showing that Malaysia is safer than Australia,Hong Kong and Japan.....
Pleaselah....only caveman will only agree with your figure...It shows that this guy never go to the ground.....
I still salute Sultan Selangor for his wise man said......
“I am sure the police are doing their best but perceptions are important. If the public do not feel safe on the street or even at home, no amount of reassurance would be good enough,” he said.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2 — Tan Sri Musa Hassan and the top brass in the Royal Malaysian Police force are in a quandary: every time they trot out statistics suggesting that the crime situation here is under control, they end up being put through the grinder.
This was also the case yesterday when the Inspector-General of Police briefed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and a collection of ministers, senior civil servants and corporate figures. He told the gathering that it was only a perception that the public safety situation here had spun out of control.
Figures showed that Malaysia was a relatively safe country with 772 crimes for every 100,000 residents in the country. This ratio compares favourably with Hong Kong where there are 1,166 cases for every 100,000 residents; Japan 1,569 cases and Australia 4,470 cases.
Taken as a whole, the statistics showed that only Singapore with 704 cases per 100,000 residents had a safer environment, said Musa.
For the next two hours, the country’s top cop had to face a barrage of questions from members of the Economic Council, sources told The Malaysian Insider.
Many of them shared anecdotes of family, friends and tourists being victims of crime. They argued that perception about crime is a function of public sentiment about their well-being at home and work.
Several Council members noted that Malaysians will have scant regard for reports that show that the crime situation was better here than in Hong Kong or Japan. What mattered was whether Malaysians felt that they could go out at any time of the day without the fear of being accosted, waylaid or robbed.
It is understood that Musa stood his ground and explained all the crime prevention initiatives that the police had introduced. He also maintained that the crime situation was pretty much under control.
Still, the consensus around the room seemed to be that though police had increased their presence in urban areas and housing estates and improved intelligence gathering, crime was still a big concern for Malaysians.
Council members were concerned that the crime situation could deteriorate during the economic slowdown.
And today, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang challenged the notion that perception rather than the crime index was the problem. He noted that in 2005 the Royal Commission on the Police Force said that the crime index of 156,455 cases for 2004 “seriously dented Malaysia’s reputation as a safe country” and recommended a reduction of the crime index by 20 per cent over the next 12 months.
He noted that the crime index remained high and yet the police were content to say that the problem was public perception. (For the first 10 months of the year, the number of crime cases was 177,141.)
The Sultan of Selangor also had something to say about crime and perception in an interview with The Star.
The Ruler said that he had been informed by Selangor police that they had been successful in bringing down the crime rate in several districts in the State.
“I am sure the police are doing their best but perceptions are important. If the public do not feel safe on the street or even at home, no amount of reassurance would be good enough,” he said.
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