Aren't the police supposed to be exemplary in their conduct to expect trust and respect from the public? Are we expected to trust the police despite the many cases of 'shoot to kill', deaths in detention, corrupt acts which made the innocent parties guilty while the guilty go scotfree, and so on? Which should come first: good police conduct or public trust in police? The last I heard, many people said they had given up reading anything from Lee Lam Thye ...
Negative perception of police can be seen as new ‘crime’: Lam Thye
KUALA LUMPUR: The community’s negative perception of the police can be seen as a new “crime” which should be curbed immediately, said Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
He said this problem had been identified some time ago but efforts to curb it demanded time and collaboration from many quarters.
“When a crime takes place, there are victims who prefer not to report it to the police, thinking that the process will be dragged out.
“This does not help the police in curbing crime. In fact, a new problem emerges - the negative perception towards crime prevention, especially the police,” he said.
Lee was speaking to Bernama after a roundtable of the National Key Results Area (NKRA) on crime reduction at Wisma Bernama here recently.
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I have also read about the robbery in Jalan Maarof, Bangsar, KL where the person who called the police was cut off from giving further information. As it turned out, the police arrived in two patrol cars but the robbers managed to escape, apparently through the opening (should have been bricked up according to strict building rules) between the ceilings and the roofs of the terrace houses.
I have personally experienced the loss of a car in Ipoh within 30 minutes. I wish the police could have taken down the make and description of the car and registration number and pass the information to those police on patrol at the time. But no, according to regulation, a police report has to be made first, and it took almost two hours which my diabetic wife nearly fainted because of low blood sugar level. Of course, any hope of recovering just vanished after the delay in making the report, and the impression the police gave that it was gone and unrecoverable by now. With the negative perception of other faults of the police, do you still expect us to inform the police when we are going away on holiday? Or make a police report when the police are even likely to tell you not to, so as not spoil the statistics?
There was a robbery at about 8 am in Puchong a few days ago. It was reported and the police came after 10. What's the use?
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