Malaysia Crime Watch

17 March 2007
Batu Gajah

A rubber and oil palm processing factory owner and his driver were heading for his factory at 12:45pm when four robbers overtook the car near a school. The robbers were armed with a pistol and an axe.

The driver tried to reverse the car to escape, one robber fired a shot which hit the driver’s left shoulder. They then broke the car’s windscreen and took RM70,000 from the owner, which was just withdrawn from a bank.

The Star Online – Factory owner loses RM70,000 to armed robbers
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/17/nation/17174267&sec=nation>

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17 March 2007
Penang

A 58-year-old housewife found a red packet containing a bullet in her house compound in Air Itam. There was a note inside written in Chinese, demanding money to be deposited into a bank account or else the family would be in danger.

The housewife then alerted her daughter, a 28-year-old factory engineer, who made a police report.

Police has classified the case as criminal intimidation under Section 506 of the Penal Code.

The Star Online – Woman gets ‘ang pow’ with a warning
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/17/nation/17170872&sec=nation>

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17 March 2007
Johor Baru

Johor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Hussin Ismail said that the increase in police presence for crime rampant areas help reduced the crime rate in Johor for the first few months of this year.

There were 6,161 cases reported in Johor last year, while the number dropped by 382 during the same period from 1 January till 15 March. This represents a 6 percent decline.

Community organizations helped to increase public awareness of crime prone areas and safety precautions, the police chief said. Police have enforced their presence by means of a “mobile patrol unit (Mpv) convergence point” method where patrol cars would meet at the crime prone areas at random times.

Batu Pahat recorded the highest decline in crime rate at 21 percent. The Mpv method was most effective there where robbery and snatch theft was most significant.

Police now are hoping to achieve at least a 5 percent decrease in crime rate every month onwards.

The Star Online – Crime rate in Johor down 6%
<URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/17/nation/20070317143634&sec=nation>

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