KUALA LUMPUR: The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) are keen to achieve the world-class policing standards to enable them to provide the people with world-class policing services in conjunction with the 205th Police Day celebration scheduled for March 25 this year.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar said all efforts were being done towards achieving the target especially after Malaysia was recognised the most peaceful country in Southeast Asia and the 19th safest and peaceful country in the world by the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011.
In 2007, Malaysia was ranked 37th, but moved to 38th in 2008.
However, the GPI reported that Malaysia’s performance had improved and that the country was ranked 26th in 2009, 22nd in 2010 and 19th in 2011.
“In a bid to achieve the world-class policing standards this year, PDRM, with the assistance of the Prime Minister’s Department’s Performance management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu), are in the midst of studying the possibility to formulate good practice guidelines for the police,” he told Bernama after conducting high-profile policing at Jelatek LRT station recently.
Ismail said the findings of the study would also be used to improve PDRM’s human resources, logistics and finance as a preparation to fully provide the world-class policing services.
He said the study would also include law enforcement agencies in New York and Philadelphia in the United States, Sweden and England in Europe, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore in Asia.
Among other objectives to achieve the world-class policing standards are to reduce crime rates, speed up response and improve our criminal investigations, he said.
Ismail said PDRM were also prepared to adopt new changes in line with the change of time.
“We have to move forward to provide a better service for the people as the country will also continue to develop,” he said.
Apart from strengthening the police force, PDRM has also forged cooperation, dubbed the Blue Ocean Strategy, with the Malaysian Armed Forces in a bid to empower national security and defence, including through the recruitment of new staff among ex-servicemen, utilising two military training centres to train new staff and conducting joint patrols to combat crimes, he said.
Ismail said PDRM had also forged close cooperation with People’s Volunteer Corps (Rela) and the Civil Defence Department to train the members as Police Volunteer Reserve (PVR).
He said the transformation had also been fruitful as the overall crime rate showed a decline of 11 per cent, surpassing the five percent target, in 2011 as compared to 2010.
The street crime rate has also declined by 40 per cent in 2010 as compared to 2009, he added. — Bernama