MPSJ-Police Join Residents of SS14 in Night Patrol

Saturday, 16 May 2009

MPSJ-Police Join Residents of SS14 in Night Patrol

Community Policing in Subang Jaya Takes on a New Partner

SUBANG JAYA's community policing initiative has taken on a new partner to fight crime in the municipality.

The latest ally, the Subang Jaya Municipal Council, joint the police and residents of SS14 late Saturday night on crime prevention rounds in the neighbourhood.

Leading the MPSJ enforcement team were council president Dato' Adnan Md Ikshan and his enforcement team, together with Chief Inspector Sulaiman Baputty and his men from the SS17 police station.

More than 20 residents together with MPSJ councillor Theresa Ratnam Thong and JKP Zone 1 members made up the more than 40 people who took to the residential streets.

Armed with batons and reflective vests, the group went around the streets and backlanes in a move to deter crime in their immediate area.

The SS14 Neighbourhood Watch is a group of residents who have been patrolling their immediate streets for almost three years now.

Initiated because residents were fed up with the constant intrusions into their homes and other petty crimes, the more than 225 houses in the area grouped together to form their teams for night patrols.

On the crime prevention patrols by MPSJ, Adnan had recently said the council was contemplating deploying uniformed enforcement personnel on crime prevention duty.
This move, if taken, would mark the first time in the country when a municipality actually deploys its enforcement personnel on active crime prevention patrols.
“We are seriously considering deploying some of our enforcement personnel to join the police and community in fighting crime.”
“The officers when deployed will be in full uniform and will move around on motorcycles,” Adnan said to SJ Echo after presenting applets to officers in the enforcement unit who had just received their promotion.