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Monday, August 12, 2013

Guan Eng to Zahid: Don't make up criminal numbers


Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi must stop making up criminal numbers or seriously beef up the police if it's true that 260,000 criminals are freely roaming the streets of Malaysia, said DAP's Lim Guan Eng.

NONEParty secretary-general Lim (left) has called remarks made by Ahmad Zahid toUtusan Malaysia over the weekend 'shocking' and 'outrageously exaggerated.'

"This shocking 260,000 army of criminals is more than the combined numbers of police personnel of 112,583 and the Malaysian armed forces of 124,000.

"For this reason, DAP calls for, not only for the Malaysian armed forces to help the police, but the United Nations Peacekeeping Force should be requested to help the Malaysian police from being outnumbered," Lim said in a statement.

Arguing for the return of the Emergency Ordinance (EO), which allowed police detention without trial, Zahid had reportedly said that 2,600 former detainees now have at least 10 lieutenants under them, who in turn each have at least 10 followers.

"This number is shocking coming from a Home Minister and his maths in counting the number of criminals is not only suspect but considered outrageously exaggerated," Lim said in the statement.

Lim reiterated a past DAP stand that serious crime can only be curbed if the police force was beefed up.

Crunching the numbers, Lim noted that a mere nine percent of the police force of 112,583 or only 10,150 were now engaged in fighting crime.

Lim said that this should be increased to at least 50 percent of the police force, or 56,000 personnel focused on fighting street crime, in order for them to do an adequate job.

"The question is whether Ahmad is fair to the police by diverting their strength from their core duties of fighting crime by requiring them to perform other duties, including monitoring and dealing with political opponents of BN."

Lim also repeated his question as to how criminals in Malaysia hadobtained guns that led to a recent spike in violent crimes.

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