State mulls setting up anti-crime clubs

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Naroden (third left front row) with the invited guests including Yusoff posing with the school children.

Naroden (third left front row) with the invited guests including Yusoff posing with the school children.

LUNDU: The state may form anti-crime clubs in every district in the state to assist enforcement agencies like police, Immigration Department and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Forestry Department to fight crimes.

This was disclosed by Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) Sarawak branch chairman Datuk Mohd Naroden Majais at the launching of MCPF Sarawak education programme at SMK Lundu yesterday.

“In our effort to fight and reduce crimes, a proposal to set up anti-crime clubs at all the 32 districts across the state has been made because we feel that the society need to assist the enforcement agencies to reduce and fight crimes,” said Naroden who is also the Assistant Minister in the Chief Minister’s Office (Bumiputera Entrepreneur Development).

Present was also director of State Security Unit in the Chief Minister’s Department Datuk Dr Yusoff Nook.

Naroden stressed that the people must play their part in the fight against crime.

“Crime is the ‘product’ committed by the society and affectung the society and because of that, the society at large must play their role and help the authorities (in the fight against crimes).”

The assistant minister acknowledged that crimes could not be totally wiped out, but could be drastically reduced if the society played their role by sharing information with enforcement agencies through social media and Rakan Cop.

He urged community leaders in housing estates and villages to set up groups mainly to share information about crime activities and inform the enforcement agencies.

He also advised parents to monitor and make an effort to know who their children befriended, saying that children who mixed with bad hats would easily get influenced. More than 800 students from SMK Lundu attended the event, which also included a talk by former drug abuser AD Leong and demonstration by the police canine unit and T-Baton.