Of the most critical things I think of-

2 June 2010
Kuala Lumpur

IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the public can depend on his police force as he reminds them that their job is to protect and assist the public and to behave themselves at all times.

He said 7,402 officers who were previously assigned for office duties have been deployed to the ground to do patrol duties since January this year. Assistant Superintendents and Inspectors are doing investigative work and over 5,000 lower rank officers are performing patrol duties and intelligence gathering.

This re-deployment exercise conceived by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak targets to achieve a police to population ratio of 1:300 from the existing 1:500 figure.

7,000 more have been deployed to work at 14 police contingents covering 147 district police headquarters and 757 police stations across the nation. 500 people will be recruited as sergeants who will do police investigations only.

Musa said with the larger police presence, the public feels safe when they go out and can expect cases to be resolved faster.

Agreed

Disagreed

Crime stats as gathered from 2001-2006

So basically as shown in this graph, robbery involving firearms have dropped drastically (definitely a good thing!), while the others fluctuated.

In this graph however, motorbikes' thefts have rose while thefts in general have escalated. Snatch thefts escalated as well, while motorcar thefts had rose a little. 

Yes, it differs. Although I am aware that this stats is rather outdated, but nonetheless I was never aware that motorbikes are among the most things stolen. I stand corrected. 

But anyway, this is rather outdated (as I have tirelessly pointed out), and in general I would say that crime rates have increased over these few years. For more information, perhaps you geeks can visit this site http://asme.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/crime-rate-in-malaysia/. 

In Japan and Singapore, littering is illegal I believe, but here in Malaysia, you can easily find chewed/ hardened chewing gum under seats in the library/ LRT/ on streets etc. See the whole contrast?

There might be more but Imma stick with this first to investigate how different mentalities can affect the types of crimes people commit. 

Ta-ta,

Nicole X.