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KUALA LUMPUR: The tireless efforts of the police and the use of preventive laws have resulted in a significant drop in crime compared to 10 years ago.
The director of the Federal Department of Criminal Investigation, Comm Datuk Huzir Mohamed, said yesterday that statistics between 2009 and last year saw two categories, serious crimes and property crimes, fell from 212,678 cases a decade ago to 83,475 cases in 2019 .
He said there was an average decrease of about 11,000 cases each year.
Felony crimes include murder, rape, causing injury, and robbery or gang robbery with or without firearms, while property crimes are robbery, robbery, robbery, and theft of vehicles.
Huzir said robberies with or without firearms were the largest contributors of serious crime, with nearly 66% of the total number of cases reported in the category.
He said that between 2011 and 2013, thefts increased by 16,000 cases a year.
“Among the reasons behind this sharp increase in serious crimes, especially robberies, was due to the repeal of three preventive laws, namely the Emergency Ordinance, the Restricted Residence Law and the Internal Security Law during the period,” Huzir said at a news conference in Bukit Aman.
“However, after the entry into force of the Crime Prevention Law (Poca) and the Security Crimes (Special Measures) Law of 2012 (Sosma), these crimes began to show a downward trend between 2014 and 2019 ”.
Huzir said murder, kidnapping and rape cases have also decreased since 2009.
Police also seized 2,222 firearms in the past 10 years.
He said that for the same period 5,403 cases of homicide were reported and 281 criminals were shot, of which 36 were foreigners.
In 2009, there were 183 firearm robberies, but only 24 of those cases were reported last year, he said.
As for property crimes, Huzir said vehicle theft accounted for 43%, or 641,981 cases in the category.
He said that more than 72%, or 464,446 of reported vehicle thefts in the country, involve motorcycles.
“On average, 115 motorcycles are reported stolen in the country every day.
“In 2009, 61,394 motorcycles were stolen, but last year it was about a third of that, 22,507.
“Vehicles of other classes that were reported stolen were cut in half in 2019 compared to the previous years of 2009.
“With this, insurance companies saved more than 20 million ringgit in claims for loss of vehicles.”
On home burglaries, he said 38,570 cases were reported in 2009, while only 16,498 cases were recorded in 2019.
Hazir said that Selangor, being a densely populated state, has the highest crime rate.
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