SIBU: The police will collaborate with other enforcement agencies, private sector, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community members to fight crimes.
Bukit Aman Human Resource and Corporate chief SAC Datuk Zainal Abidin Kassim said this was one of the strategies under the police’s Five-Year Strategic Plan (PS5T) 2011-2015 for crime prevention.
“The PS5T is an effort for the development of police team towards becoming the main enforcement authority that emphasises performance evaluation of all departments under the agency,” he said.
In fact, Zainal disclosed that there are six strategies for the implementation of PS5T 2011-2015.
Other five strategies are: zero crime index per day per district; collateralisation of 4Ps concept; active creative and innovative thinking; improvement of spiritual programme for police personnel; and continuous and scheduled monitoring.
The collaboration and integration effort with other enforcement agencies, private sector, non-governmental organisations and community members is strategy number three.
“We will collaborate with Rela, Civil Defence Department, Customs Department, army, Village Security and Development Committee (JKKK) of villages and residential areas and others,” Zainal said.
He was speaking to reporters here yesterday after having officiated at the PS5T 2011-2015 briefing by Bukit Aman officers held at a hotel here.
For the purpose, he said they could conduct volunteer patrol scheme (Skim Rondaan Sukarela) with JKKK as well as joint operation with other enforcement agencies.
With private sector and NGOs, he said their cooperation would be a win-win situation.
He cited Sunway City in Selangor where the developer Sime Darby provided the police with a van for patrolling.
“Police on the other hand provide the manpower whereby we conduct patrol together with Sunway City in-house security,” he said.
On a similar strategy under the ‘Safe City Programme’, he said the police also hoped to extend the ‘Ops Payung’ nationwide.
“We have been receiving very good responses from the public in residential areas where this programme is implemented like in Petaling Jaya, Selangor,” he said.
He said the programme was not only for crime prevention but also to make the public feel safe with the presence of police in their residential areas, particularly the hotspots.
‘Ops Payung’ was first launched in Selangor in February this year.
Also present at the briefing was Sibu police chief ACP Shafie Ismail.