Your Two Cents Worth Here
Thanks Gina for sharing my experience with the rest of the blog readers.I hope the info is helpful to others. I'm OK now 
. Getting my new skin. Sometimes, the sound of the motorbikes irritates me and the incident on that faithful day starts playing on my mind. Yet life goes on and by overcoming my fear, I went back to the alley where it happened BUT this time I walked in group (with my colleague, at least 3 of us), I'm more alert of my surroundings, I carry a long solid umbrella (not too late to do so, turst me it'll come handy, please carry one if you're walking) and I also keep tab of oncoming vehicles...
It always take something worst happened to make the people notice. In this case, it is death. Snatch thieves have been prying around for years. I had seen it twice right in front of my eyes at the area that I live. In fact, I'm really amazed with their skill to snatch the handbags from a moving object without even have to slow down their bike. I remember calling the police with my very broken bahasa to ask for more patrol. I was deeply disappointed with their reply, which sound something as below:
" Kami sudah tambah patrol. Apa yang boleh kami buat ? Ini bukan hanya berlaku di tempat awak. Perempuan dinasihat jangan simpan wang, IC, ATM Card dalam bag mereka"
And with my broken bahasa , I said " tapi mereka juga jatuh mah. Sakit. Bagaimana?"
And the police that I spoke to, got very aggigated with my question as if she ( yup, a police woman) tak sabar to hang up.
I agree, Anzhen. Malaysians are reactive. Only react when things are at their worst. Like Canny Ong's death, only leads to CCTV in parking lot.
i cut n pasted wai ye's letter in the discussion groups that i'm in, coz i know a lot of the girls there park their cars and walk to the clubs.. increasing the risk..
hope u guys don't mind ya.
Feel free to do that Dude! We dont want to be labelled as having "tidak apa" attitude. It is the POLICE that have this attitude.
Ryuu, feel free to do so and THANKS for doing so At least this way we are able to create greater awareness among people of such cases...
Yeah Anzhen, sometimes is very disheartening to hear their lame reply to our plight. The best advise they can give is "berhati-hati lah lain kali, nak buat macam mane".
The sergeant I've met on that day confessed to me that the reason for their underforce is partly due to their low income and the government is not flexible enough to change the entry requirement. I've even suggested to him that they should make it compulsory for all school leaver to do national service...and he smiled..and I've further discovered from him that no matter what position/ranking they are, they're helpless to do anything or go against their own 'family'...
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