Wipe out organised crime: CM
KUCHING: Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud wants criminals to be wiped out as they should not be allowed to “plough into our laws and disturb the peace”. The government would never allow criminals to have an upper hand in the society, he said, adding that the government was fully responsible in looking after the safety of the people. The Chief Minister warned criminals, particularly organised criminals, who thought they could reign supreme in the society better think twice. “Criminals should not be allowed to plough into our laws and disturb the peace of the people. “We need and must wipe them (criminals) out,” said Taib when delivering his keynote address at the opening of a Seminar on Organised Crime with the theme ‘Combating Organised Crime: Strategies, Legal Instruments and Effective Policing’. The two-day seminar, at Riverside Hotel, was attended by more than 300 participants from various law enforcement agencies including the police and local councils.
The speakers included those from Hong Kong and Singapore. The seminar was organised by the Chief Minister’s Department in collaboration with Sarawak Police and Centre for Modern Management. Taib told the law enforcers not to collapse under pressure from criminals, particularly organised syndicates, but to buck up and make concerted effort to fight the illegal activities. “We have adequate laws to fight criminals, including organised crime … let them (criminals) understand that we have enough power to fight them (once they tried to go against the law),” he said. The police must make full use of the Intelligence Unit to combat organised crime, he added. He assured the State government would lend a helping hand to the police to fight criminals, particularly organised crime.
The Chief Minister also said that it was important to look for new approaches to tackle the changing trend of organised crime. “New ways must continuously be looked into to fight organised crime … we must know how they operate; we need to study the nature of organised crime because only then can we plan strategies to act efficiently and effectively,” he said. Organised crime would always try to gain the upper hand, and as such required different approaches in tackling them, he said, citing illegal logging as one of the organised crimes. He said organised syndicates were also monopolising the prices of cash commodities like rubber to gain higher profit margins by forcing rural farmers to sell their crops at much lower prices. He described this as a “subtle way of robbing the rural people” to get a bigger profit margin. This indicated that organised crime had also penetrated into the rural areas where in the past never required the presence police, he pointed out.
The Chief Minister appealed for public co-operation like providing information to fight crimes more effectively. He said the police must be prepared to work with the public to prevent and minimise organised crime in the State. The public must also discard the impression that criminals were stronger than them, he said. Taib also appealed to the business community and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) here to come forward and assist the police to fight crimes. He commended the efforts of business community in Sibu and Miri, in pledging full support to the police and other law enforcement agencies, to fight crimes. Some had even pledged to buy vehicles for the police to fight crimes, he said.
Source : The Borneo Post
The speakers included those from Hong Kong and Singapore. The seminar was organised by the Chief Minister’s Department in collaboration with Sarawak Police and Centre for Modern Management. Taib told the law enforcers not to collapse under pressure from criminals, particularly organised syndicates, but to buck up and make concerted effort to fight the illegal activities. “We have adequate laws to fight criminals, including organised crime … let them (criminals) understand that we have enough power to fight them (once they tried to go against the law),” he said. The police must make full use of the Intelligence Unit to combat organised crime, he added. He assured the State government would lend a helping hand to the police to fight criminals, particularly organised crime.
The Chief Minister also said that it was important to look for new approaches to tackle the changing trend of organised crime. “New ways must continuously be looked into to fight organised crime … we must know how they operate; we need to study the nature of organised crime because only then can we plan strategies to act efficiently and effectively,” he said. Organised crime would always try to gain the upper hand, and as such required different approaches in tackling them, he said, citing illegal logging as one of the organised crimes. He said organised syndicates were also monopolising the prices of cash commodities like rubber to gain higher profit margins by forcing rural farmers to sell their crops at much lower prices. He described this as a “subtle way of robbing the rural people” to get a bigger profit margin. This indicated that organised crime had also penetrated into the rural areas where in the past never required the presence police, he pointed out.
The Chief Minister appealed for public co-operation like providing information to fight crimes more effectively. He said the police must be prepared to work with the public to prevent and minimise organised crime in the State. The public must also discard the impression that criminals were stronger than them, he said. Taib also appealed to the business community and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) here to come forward and assist the police to fight crimes. He commended the efforts of business community in Sibu and Miri, in pledging full support to the police and other law enforcement agencies, to fight crimes. Some had even pledged to buy vehicles for the police to fight crimes, he said.
Source : The Borneo Post
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