DAPSY Memorandum to Police- 17.3.2010

DAP Socialist Youth presented a memorandum to Ketua Police Daerah Kuching on 17.3.2010 to call for daily policemen patrolling and stand guard at crowded places and places with high crime rate in Kuching. The following is our memorandum:-


MEMORANDUM

CALL FOR DAILY POLICEMEN PATROLLING AND STAND GUARD
AT CROWDED PLACES AND PLACES WITH HIGH CRIME RATE
IN KUCHING


To: Ketua Polis Daerah Kuching
Ibupejabat Polis Daerah Kuching
Polis Diraja Malaysia
Jalan Simpang Tiga,
93300 Kuching,
Sarawak.


Dear Sir,


Re: Call for daily policemen patrolling and stand guard at crowded place and places with high crime rate in Kuching.
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We, Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth (DAPSY), Kuching, strongly call for daily policemen patrolling and stand guard at crowded place and places with high crime rate in Kuching.

The people in City of Kuching have experienced a great job done by the police personnel in patrolling and stand guard at most of the traffic light junctions all over Kuching City during the Annual General Meeting of Party Persaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Sarawak, a component and leading party of Barisan Nasional in Sarawak, on early March 2010.

As such, we strongly call for equal force from the police, as what has been provided to PBB, to the benefit of all the people in Kuching. The crimes in this city are rampant, although the official statistics may not show so. Recently, we have four students being robbed where one of them was killed, a taxi driver was murdered, outsiders went into a secondary school and blashed up a student, non-stop houses/shop breaking incidences, theft of vehicles, rape cases and others. The City of Kuching was painted by the Barisan Nasional Government as a peaceful city to which most of the people of this city will strongly disagree.

We have received complaints from some of the victims of housebreaking that when they made phone calls to your department to report the incident of housebreaking, they have been asked by policeman to lodge a written police report at the nearest police station before any police personnel can go to the crime scene. The reason given by the police was that the investigating officer has no authorities to go out from their office to carry out investigation work unless they are referred to a formal police report.

As a result of which, the victims have to wait for about 2 hours to lodge a police report and to record his statement; and wait for another few hours for an investigating officer to come to the scene for investigation. At the end of the day, the criminals are, most of the time, untraceable.

However, on the other hand, the Selangor Police can by their own initiative lodged a police report against DAP Secretary-General and Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng, for sedition.

If that can be done against DAP, a political enemy of Barisan National, why it cannot be done against the criminals, the common enemy of the people?

We urge for fair and responsible enforcement from the police force. We urge the police to be more to the ground and more accessible to the people for the purpose of preventing the crime and to be the very first person comes to the crime scene when victim is calling for aid. One of the main reasons why crimes are rampantly repeating is because policemen were only arrived to the scene long after the crime has happened.

We noticed that policemen are keener to pay attention to drivers or motorcyclists for minor traffic offences, such as vehicles which cross double lines, drivers who use handphone without hands-free while driving, illegal parking, vehicles or drivers with road tax or driving licence expired, etc… These are duties supposed to be carried out by traffic policemen, enforcement team of Jabatan Pengangkutan Jalanraya (JPJ) and traffic wardens of local councils.

We are curious why, to a minor traffic offender, who passes by a particular place in seconds, the policeman is able to identify and stops him; however to a criminal, who commits a crime in a particular place for minutes and hours, the policeman is unable to arrest him.

Therefore we call for your department to concentrate your man power in fighting against criminals by daily patrolling and stand guard at crowded place and places with high crime rate in Kuching. This has been doing by the policeman in Hong Kong and South Korea.

In the interest of the People, we hope our plea herein will meet with your serious consideration and approval.


Dated this 17th day of March, 2010



On behalf of Democratic Action Party Socialist Youth, Kuching,

(signed)

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Wong King Wei
Secretary of DAPSY
Kuching