Residents gathering in SS3 goes on despite rain

Wednesday March 24, 2010

Residents gathering in SS3 goes on despite rain

By FAZLEENA AZIZ (fazleena@thestar.com.my)

IT was raining heavily but spirits were high as about 100 residents from Jalan SS3/72, 74, 76 & 78 in Petaling Jaya gathered for a get-together recently.

The event was organised by the pro tem neighbourhood watch for roads SS3/ 72, 74, 76 & 78 in a bid to promote and get to know their neighbours.

Present at the event were Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua, Kampung Tunku assemblyman Lau Weng San and Petaling Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed.

During the gathering, issues like security, crime rates and police efforts were highlighted.

Lau pointed out the pro tem committee would not be affected by the gated and guarded guidelines.

Recently, the Selangor state government had come out with the draft for gated and guarded guidelines.

He said the committee had engaged with patrol services and had not closed up any roads.

“In the guidelines, it is stated that 85% of the community must support gated and guarded community.

“We are gathering feedback from the residents associations and rukun tetangga,” he said at the event.

Lau said the crime rate in SS3/72, 74, 76 & 78 had reduced since last year and the committee had at least 95% of subscription for security.

He also spoke about the lack of police personnel at the Sungai Way station, which covered a large area.

Speaking on security and crime, Pua added that Klang and Petaling Jaya had the highest crime rate in the state.

However, the rate has gone down in local areas in half a year due to visible police presence like patrolling and road blocks.

He said engaging in security services were expensive as residents tend to fork out a lot of money each year.

“With more police presence we hope the crime rate will go down,” he said, adding that the General Operation Force from Bukit Aman have been brought in to help until the number of local police officers were increased.

According to Arjunaidi they were trying to cope with the crime rate and now they are concentrating on hotspot areas like Seapark and Damansara.

He said the crime rate was much lower in areas like SS3 & 5 but gave an assurance that they were beefing up personnel in Seapark and Daman-sara.

“We have more people in Seapark, Damansara and Kampung Subang.

“To my understanding, there are plans for Kelana Jaya and Sungai way as well,” he said.