BY
: SHAIMON S JUMADI
IN
response to recent shooting incidents happened in Peninsular
Malaysia and in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah last night which caused a
44-year-old Chinese businessman from Sarawak shot dead, Member
Parliament of Sandakan, Stephen Wong Tien Fatt (Picture) today made
his statement to reflect the people's concerned and also urge the
police to evaluate the enforcement measures in an appropriate
context, in particular, to fight crime and prevent further
deterioration.
MP
Stephen Wong said that the recent severe shooting incidents that
happened, not only caused the public to be panic, but also aroused
the concern of foreign countries. According to the latest national
statistics, there are 23 shooting incidents happened in July 2013 and
10 people were shot dead while another 13 were injured. For the month
of July, there is an average of every three days a people was shot,
this situation is horrible.
He
further said that the shooting incidents happened in the past one
week which had already aroused to 8 cases and this had not include
the stabbing case happened in Sandakan of which the victim was found
dead two days ago.
MP
Stephen Wong pointed out that the situation of national security has
become worsen and the police seem unable to control and ensure the
national security effectively. In his opinion, the police need to do
adjustment on their working system by deploying majority of manpower
to fight crime, in order to prevent the situation continues to
deteriorate.
He
said that, according to reports from Parliament, we have 112,583
police personnel nationwide while our population is 28,000,000, which
mean in an average of one police force to look after 250 people. This
figure is in line with the international standard of police to the
public, but the allocation of police forces in different departments
required adjustments. We have 112,583 police personnel nationwide,
only 15,887 (14%) are allocated to fight upfront crime, while others
are placed into administrative and others.
He
said that after excluding police forces that placed into others from
the existing 112,583, there are more than 7,600 belong to the Special
Branch, in fact, does the Special Branch need that much of manpower
is worth for review. Instead of having more than 7,600 police
personnel to monitoring domestic political activities, why not
assigned them to fight crime? I would find this to be more
appropriate on manpower management.
MP
Stephen Wong said that, according to reports from Parliament, since
2007 to 2012, the government's budget allocated to police funding in
these six years being increased 65.17%, why do the funding increases
so much, yet the security has become worsen and seem continue to
deteriorate?
He
said that, in this case shows that the police should evaluate again
whether their existing working system is effective and not just blame
the repeal or revocation of emergency decree caused the situation.
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