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| Police: Crime reduction NKRA progressing well, new initiatives introduced Posted: 24 Mar 2013 09:14 AM PDT
PDRM Crime Reduction National Key Result Areas (NKRA) Secretariat chairman Datuk Wira Ayub Yaacob said the implementation of the initiatives in the GTP 2.0 would involve the participation of the people, especially women, and the private sector. For example, he said the recently launched 1Aman Go-to-safety Points Campaign, which aimed at providing assistance to crime victims, involved the participation of seven outlets of 7-Eleven convenience store and two post offices around Bukit Bintang. "Trainings (to handle emergency cases) given by the police to the participating quarters include crime prevention assistance, such as in arresting a member of the public, the right to defend themselves, lodging police report and police network that can be contacted," he said in an interview in conjunction with the 206th Police Day. Besides, he said PDRM had also set up a special unit, known as Aman Wanita (Amanita) to collect information on unreported crime-related activities, by forging close cooperation with housewives. "We acknowledge that sometimes housewives do have important information, especially about crime-related activity, which they shared with each other during their 'gossip sessions,'" he said. Therefore, he said for a start, 152 female police officers had been identified to participate in the unit. Ayub also described the move as recognition for the women who played the most important role in their families, especially in advising their husbands in making decisions. "We are confident that women can play an equal role in keeping public order and maintaining peace in the country," he said. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak when tabling the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) Annual Report 2012, said that the crime rate in the country had been reduced by 27 per cent over the past three years. Among the crime reduction NKRA initiatives implemented in the GTP 1.0 were improving voluntary patrol scheme (SRS), setting up the Crime Awareness Team (CAT), establishing additional courts and organising various operations including the anti-motorcycle theft operation, dubbed Ops Lejang. "The people have now realised that the presence of police in the Omnipresence programme can reduce their fear, thus changing their perception of the security level in the country," Ayub said. In the GTP 2.0 which began from 2013 to 2015, the NKRA initiatives to reduce crime index would include preventing house break-ins and vehicle theft, which would also see efforts being taken towards prisoner and drug addicts rehabilitation and skills improvement, as well as formation of dedicated burglary control team. To increase the Safety Perception Index, the government would increase police presence, such as through the Rakan Cop programme and the introduction of a Panic Button application on smartphones. To increase the number of investigation papers (IPs), the government would reduce the ratio of investigating officers to IPs to 1:5 per month, while to increase public satisfaction with the police service, the police response time would also be reduced from 15 minutes to eight minutes. The PDRM has a huge target, which is to reduce the crime index by five per cent per annum, to reduce house break-in cases by five to 10 per cent and to increase safety perception index to 65 per cent, Ayub said. "Police are also aiming to increase the prosecution rate for each investigation paper opened to 35 per cent," he said. — Bernama |
| Euro zone bailouts harder to agree, say policymakers Posted: 24 Mar 2013 08:46 AM PDT SAARISELKA (Finland), March 24 — Euro zone bailouts are getting tougher to agree as opposition within creditor nations grows and indebted states struggle to persuade citizens to back austerity, policymakers said on Sunday. At a meeting in Finnish Lapland this weekend, attendees including Ireland's Europe Minister Lucinda Creighton and host Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen sounded confident that Cyprus would secure a bailout deal to avoid financial collapse. But they added the crisis was a reminder of the work needed to make sure EU member states stand by shared fiscal targets. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia which joined the euro in 2011, said many saw bailouts as unfair. "The result has been, over time, a decreasing willingness on the part of governments to go along with bailing out because their publics are not wiling to go along with it, and so their parliaments are not going along with it," he said. "It's going to get harder and harder to get things such as EFSF and ESM (bailout funds) passed in parliaments if we don't see more responsibility taken by those who need assistance." In Finland, one of the few remaining countries in the euro zone to be rated triple-A by all major credit rating agencies, the anti-euro Finns Party has become a major opposition force, with voters viewing bailouts of countries such as Greece and Portugal as a reward for profligacy. "When it's a union of values, it means that we have to have a strong sense of fairness," Katainen said. "One of the reasons we are in a crisis is that everybody did not follow the rules." The small Nordic economy endured a wave of bankruptcies and years of austerity after a banking crisis in the early 1990s. That experience, as well as the rise of the Finns Party in 2011 elections, has forced the broadly pro-Europe government to take a tough stance on bailouts. Finnish European affairs minister Alexander Stubb said the Cyprus deal, expected to "bail in" top bank depositors, would mark a step away from previous rescue packages by forcing investors to share the burden, as countries such as Finland and Germany have demanded. "We're going towards the system of a bail-in, and I think that's the message that's being sent in this particular rescue package," he said of the Cyprus bailout. Stubb said the worst of Europe's debt crisis was over, although he didn't rule out some flare ups. "We are going to get a few market turbulences still, it's quite clear, but it's not as fundamental or systemic as the ones we had when we had other countries on the brink," he said. Ireland's Creighton said the experience in Ireland, which is expected to exit its bailout programme this year after over two years of fiscal reforms, proved that bitter austerity medicine worked when applied with honesty. — Reuters |
KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) is confident that the introduction of new initiatives under the second phase of the Government Transformation Programme (GTP 2.0) Reducing Crime will be able to bear fruit as seen in the first phase (GTP 1.0). | You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: ALL To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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