Perjumpaan dengan OCPD kawasan Sentul, Tuan ACP Zakaria Pagan
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This afternoon I had a meeting with the OCPD of Sentul Police District, Tuan ACP Zakaria bin Pagan. (For your information, Wangsa Maju Police District comes under the wings of Sentul Police District.) I raised with him the concerns of the residents of Wangsa Maju about the rate of increase in crimes in the constituency. Tuan Zakaria’s reply to me was that the crime rate is not on the increase as perceived by members of the public but on the contrary.
OCPD of Sentul Police District, Tuan ACP Zakaria bin Pagan
OCPD Polis Sentul, Tuan ACP Zakaria bin Pagan
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However, Tuan Zakaria is personally not very happy with the rate of decrease in crimes and is continuing to do his best to bring the numbers down to as low as possible.
He shared with me his only handicap is the size of his force. For the Wangsa Maju Police District, he said, the ratio between the police and the residents is about 1 police officer to 4,000 people. I jokingly told him his situation is very much better than mine. My ratio is 1 MP to 60,000 constituents. 🙂 Of course I am very dumb-founded by the ratio that was presented to me. As it stands, Wangsa Maju police district has a total of 50 police officers looking after the welfare of a population of about 250,000 people, which is more than 4 times bigger than the Wangsa Maju Parliamentary Constituency.
From my point of view, the most ideal ratio would be 1 officer to about 300 people. The government must immediately start a recruiting exercise for the police force if it really wants to combat crimes. I shall bring this matter to the attention of the Minister of Home Affairs with the hope that he will make fighting crimes one of his priorities.
I was also informed that since the Chief Police Officer of K L had launched Operasi Sepadu for Wilayah Persekutuan in mid April 2009, and the programme is still on-going, there had been some positive effect. In fact, under this Operasi Sepadu, the police force in Wangsa Maju had managed to reduce snatch thefts and way-side robberies considerably. For example, for the period between January to 09 June 2008 the reported cases of snatch thefts totalled 360 and for the same corresponding period this year the number of cases had reduced to 297, a decrease of about 18%. With this programme, the police had also managed to put Mat Rempits (Samseng Samseng Jalan) under control.
Tuan Zakaria was pleased to learn that I had called upon Yg Bhg Datuk Ahmad Fuad, Datuk Bandar KL, to launch a campaign to light up dark places in Wilayah Persekutuan as one of DBKL
