KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) will review all its initiatives to reduce the crime rate to make a success of the ‘Crime Awareness Team (CAT)’ programme which targets youths for crime prevention, said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar.
He said initiatives like community-oriented policing, school relations officers and Rakan Cop would be made to make a bigger impact on youths so that that they were more aware of the need to preserve security and harmony in the country.
“PDRM will also be directly involved in helping the Youth and Sports Ministry implement activities formulated for this purpose, including courses on CAT leadership and programmes like ‘Info on Wheels’, crime hotspots, CAT@Community and interactive camps on CAT leadership at the national level,” he said in a statement here yesterday.
Praising the CAT initiative, he said besides existing initiatives, PDRM in collaboration with the Home Ministry and other related agencies would formulate strategies and activities that would be beneficial to the 10 million youths in the
country.
He said PDRM would also give added emphasis on crime prevention strategies involving youths in crime hotspots by monitoring crime trends and taking appropriate measures to nip problems in the bud.
Besides these, Ismail said PDRM infrastructure capabilities especially in terms of information communication technology would be expanded so that it became the main platform for youths to channel information related to crime prevention.
“The technology available now can assist PDRM in responding faster and more effectively in crime prevention. Youths are encouraged to interact with PDRM through Facebook and PDRM’s website,” he said.
CAT is an initiative launched on Friday under the government’s National Key Result Areas. — Bernama