KOTA BELUD: The district of Kota Belud can be considered as one of the safest places to visit due to the decline in its crime rate, including snatch cases.
District police chief DSP Mohan A/L Nadasen said the overall crime rate in the town area had shown a decline whereby the crime index for 2008 was recorded at 152 cases, followed by 111 cases in 2009 and 102 cases in 2010.
For the first four months of this year, only 24 crime cases had been reported which involved two violent crimes and 22 property crimes.
“There was also no snatch case reported during this period in Kota Belud,” he said when contacted yesterday.
According to Mohan, the achievement was due to the continuous cooperation by the public in helping the police in crime prevention and the continuous monitoring and patrolling carried out by the police on mobile patrol vehicles.
He was responding to the complaint of DAP that too many posters had been put up in Kota Belud to warn the people to watch out for snatch thieves.
Mohan said the police here had never put up posters to alert the public on snatch thieves.
He said the police do not know who put up such posters around the town and a thorough investigation would be carried out.
Sabah DAP Kota Belud Kadamian branch chairman Wallen Muyou said the government was spending the people’s money unwisely by putting up the posters all over the villages in Usukan and Tampasok.
He said the posters were erected along the roadsides. Some were even placed about 100 feet in between each other.
Wallen said he had received complaints from the villagers that the signboards had given them the impression that their villages were infiltrated by snatch thieves and they were in danger of being snatched everyday.