Extracted from Free Malaysia Today on 28 August 2012. By ACP Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf is a public relations officer of Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM).
In response to the article ‘Crime Statistics – Let the truth be told’. The link here:
We want to put on record the published article is indeed full of factual inaccuracies, misplaced allegations and misleading statements. PDRM is more than happy to engage the public and to offer any clarification they require at any point.
We do this in hope that the public at large will be better equipped to make an informed conclusion as to the veracity and intention of any misrepresentation of the process PDRM are tasked to uphold for the sake of public safety and national security.
In summary,
- Definitions of Index and Non-Index Crimes, as well as the Investigation and Prosecution processes have been instituted long before the introduction of the NKRA program.
- There is no factual basis or evidence to the allegation that crime statistics is manipulated or “doctored”.
- All reported crimes, regardless of which penal code sections or category of crimes they come under, will contribute to the crime statistics. And this will be further enhanced by the Online Report Tracking System under Beta testing at the moment and due for launch late 2012.
- The achievements of PDRM and improvements by way of the NKRA are real, as are its initiatives, such as Omnipresence, Safe City Program, Investigation Enhancement, Front-line Servicing.
- The writer if indeed a police personnel has not been long in the force, has clearly no understanding on how policing processes and crime investigations are conducted.
- To avoid doubts and misunderstanding due to misrepresentation as demonstrated by the writer, PDRM would like to gracefully extend an invitation to any member of the public an opportunity to come forward and share their concerns with us.
Comment by Tony Pua is the MP for Petaling Jaya Utara and DAP’s national publicity secretary. Extracted from Free Malaysia Today on 29 August 2012. Read more here:
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2012/08/29/crime-index-misleading-reply-from-pdrm/
After nearly a week of silence, the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) finally provided a lengthy reply to the allegations made in an anonymous letter that the authorities have manipulated crime statistics in Malaysia to give a brighter picture...
PDRM has defended itself from the above key accusation by claiming that even after taking into account non-index crime, “overall crime (Index + Non-Index) has in fact reduced in 2010, 2011 and 2012 (year-to-date)”. PDRM claimed that the total index and non-index crime has dropped 7%, 9% and 5.3% respectively in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Hence PDRM concluded that the allegation is erroneous.
On the contrary, this simplistic and misleading reply from PDRM has in fact exposed the likelihood that crime data manipulation had indeed taken place extensively.
The government had in fact boasted its achievement of 15.4%, 11.1% and 10.1% reduction in the crime index over 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively as its remarkable achievement under the Crime National Key Result Area (NKRA). The fact that after non-index crime is taken into account, the crime-fighting performance dropped significantly provides strong evidence of manipulation.
Based on statistics provided by PDRM, “index crime” has dropped from 209,572 in 2007 to 157,891 in 2011, or 24.7% over the period. However, “non-index crime” has on the contrary, increased from 42,752 to 72,106 or a massive 68.7% over the same period.
What is even more glaring is the fact that “non-index crime” is increasing annually as a proportion of total crime since 2007 based on PDRM data. It has increased from 16.9% of total crime in 2007 to 21.9% (2008) to 22.8% (2009) to 29.8% (2010) to a record of 31.4% in 2011...
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