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Public can now find out status of their police report |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 20:29 |
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KUALA LUMPUR: Those lodging police reports can now request the report status from the police by filling up forms.
Deputy Minister Senator Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh said in Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday that the law has been amended to enable complainants to find out the status of their reports.
He added that it was the police’s responsibility to inform the complainant about the status of the report.
“If the police do not produce the status report by a certain time, it is against the law and the complainant can file a new report if his original report is disregarded or not investigated by the police,” he said.
In a supplementary question, Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi (BN - Batu Pahat) had asked in Parliament Tuesday who determines whether reports are investigated since some may be slanderous and baseless while many public reports were not investigated but reports against certain individuals were investigated quickly.
On Fong Kui Lun’s (DAP - Bukit Bintang) earlier question about the number of police reports received that were successfully investigated, pending or rejected, Wan Ahmad said that 196,780 reports were received from the public in 2006 and from that figure, 64,016 or 32.53% were successfully investigated.
For 2007, 209,559 reports were received and from the number 82,270 reports or 39.26% were successfully resolved by the police, he said.
From January to July 2008, 124,044 reports were received and 52,306 of the reports or 42.17% were successfully resolved by the police, Wan Ahmad said.
The number of reports for 2005 and before that were still pending were 81,176 cases and among the reasons for the delay were the complainants’ lack of interest in pursuing the matter or they could not be located, or witnesses who could not be identified and the lack of leads, he said.
Fong then asked what major obstacles the police faced in ininvestigating these reports and what was done to overcome the lack of investigators and missing exhibits.
Besides the reasons stated earlier for the delay, there were also cases that were not criminal cases such as personal debt related cases, nevertheless police officers were sent overseas to learn about forensic science and upgrading of equipment to overcome investigation obstacles, Wan Ahmad said.
Efforts were also being made to increase the number of police officers and action was taken against those who lost exhibits, he said.
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What kind of efficiency is that? Oh yeah this is in Malaysia where the public transport is much higher than private cars and they wanted us to use public transportation! Hahahaha! 
