Kenapa Norazita terbunuh...
Rompakan dan pembunuhan Norazita Abu Talib memang telah mengejutkan negara. Dia ditembak dengan kejam di muka oleh seorang pengawal keselamatan yang dikatakan memiliki kad pengenalan palsu.
Kematian pegawai Ambank ini lewat bulan lepas telah mendedahkan satu lagi kepincangan berkaitan dengan keadaan jenayah dalam negara yang semakin hari semakin teruk.
Mengapa Norazita perlu mati sebegitu? Biar saya berterus-terang di sini; ya, kita boleh menyalahkan kepimpinan UMNO - kerana enggan untuk mereformasikan pasukan polis dan untuk membolehkan kaum kroninya membuka firma-firma keselamatan. Tidak ada keperluan untuk merasa jijik atau marah.
Walaupun kadar jenayah semakin meningkat tinggi dan keadaan ini dikatakan semakin teruk - pembunuhan, rogol dan jenayah samseng - pemimpan UMNO/BN masih taksub dengan komunis!
Polis kita masih beroperasi dalam mod Perang Dingin seolah-olah komunis masih mengintai negara di setiap sudut,walhal Perjanjian Damai Hatyai dengan Komunis Malaya telah ditanda tangani 24 tahun lalu dan Chin Ping pun dah meninggal dunia.
Kadar jenayah adalah tinggi,walaupun statistik kerajaan menunjukkan sebaliknya. Didorong ketakutan dengan jenayah yang kian meningkat rakyat mula mendapatkan perlindungan alternatif, iaitu menggunakan syarikat2 keselamatan swasta. Di Kuala Lumpur, kita dapat melihat kewujudan banyak pondok2 pengawal di kawasan perumahan kelas pertengahan kebelakangan ini.
Walaupun terdapat anggota polis yang cukup per kapita (kira-kira 110,000 polis kepada 28 juta orang), hanya sebahagian kecil yang terlibat dalam memerangi jenayah secara langsung. Kehadiran polis dan kualiti penyiasatan polis adalah dua faktor yang paling penting, tetapi separuh daripada anggota polis terlibat dalam pengurusan, logistik (12%), cawangan khas (5%), rusuhan(3%), dan Pasukan Gerakan Am,unit menentang komunis(15%).
Hasilnya,polis rondaan tidak mencukupi. Kerja2 polis penyiasat jenayah sememangnya terlalu padat dan bekerja lebih masa. Hanya kurang daripada 10% daripada pasukan polis adalah di jabatan siasatan jenayah,kira-kira 2,000 yang terlibat dengan kuasa penuh untuk menyiasat.
Dengan kadar jenayah yang tinggi dan keengganan kerajaan BN untuk beralih keutamaan polis dari memerangi komunis kepada memerangi jenayah, maka tidak hairanlah bahawa terdapat pasaran yang besar untuk perlindungan menggunakan syarikat2 keselamatan swasta. Sekali pandang tidak ada yang salah dengan itu. Syarikat2 keselamatan swasta seharusnya dikawal selia dengan tegas dan teratur.
Pada suatu masa dahulu,adalah amat sukar untuk sesiapa sahaja bagi mendapatkan lesen untuk mengendalikan sebuah syarikat keselamatan swasta.
Pada bulan Oktober 2011, Kementerian Dalam Negeri memberitahu dalam jawapan Parlimen bahawa terdapat 584 syarikat keselamatan swasta yang berdaftar dengan kerajaan. Dua tahun kemudian, jumlah meningkat kepada 751.
Dalam jawapan kepada soalan Parlimen 2011 itu juga,kerajaan menyatakan terdapat 160,000 pengawal keselamatan rakyat Malaysia dan 1,049 bekas askar Nepal.
Hari ini, Star (Nov 6,2013) melaporkan bahawa terdapat 400,000 pengawal keselamatan, yang mana 150,000 adalah pendatang haram!
Menurut jawapan Parlimen: “lesen 2 (a) (Syarikat Kawalan Keselamatan) adalah mengikut syarat-syarat seperti berikut:
a) Salah seorang pemegang saham terdiri daripada sekurang-kurangnya bekas pegawai tinggi Polis DiRaja Malaysia atau Angkatan Tentera DiRaja Malaysia yang berpangkat sekurang-kurangnya SAC II ATAU Kolonel yang memegang 30% ekuiti saham syarikat; ATAU
b) Salah seorang terdiri daripada sekurang-kurangnya bekas pegawai awam dalam kumpulan Pengurusan dan Professional yang pernah berkhidmat dalam sektor keselamatan selama sekurang-kurangnya lima (5) tahun yang berpangkat sekurang-kurangnya Gred 52 atau yang mempunyai sijil kursus keselamatan atau yang setaraf dengannya memegang 30% ekuiti saham syarikat.
c) Hendaklah ditubuhkan syarikat Sdn Bhd.
d) Mempunyai modal berbayar RM300,000.
e) Pegangan saham syarikat dimiliki oleh Bumiputra sebanyak 70%.”
Nampaknya adalah tidak sukar untuk menubuhkan sebuah syarikat keselamatan swasta di Malaysia.
Lesen yang digunakan untuk penubuhan syarikat kawalan swasta ini diberikan kepada ketua polis,pegawai2 polis kanan atau jeneral tentera.
Tetapi dalam beberapa tahun kebelakangan ini, ahli-ahli politik UMNO dan proksi mereka menerima kenanyakkan lesen2 baru.
Pemegang2 lesen atau kroni2 UMNO ini akan melakukan apa-apa saja untuk mendapatkan wang segera, dan ianya dilakukan tanpa penelitian. Jadi, terima kasih kepada mereka, kita menjadi sebuah negara tentera upahan dalam bentuk pengawal keselamatan asing.
Kegagalan kerajaan dan kroni tamak
Jawapan yang biasa diberikan apabila seseorang bertanya, Mengapa penduduk tempatan tidak diupah untuk menjadi pengawal keselamatan?" adalah bahawa "penduduk tempatan tidak mahu bekerja kerana gaji yang rendah."
Dalam konteks pasaran kerja semasa, jika seorang pengawal keselamatan dibayar RM2,500 sebulan, saya pasti ramai rakyat tempatan akan berebut-rebut untuk menjadi pengawal keselamatan,terutamanya bekas tentera dan polis, yang kebanyakannya kini dipaksa oleh keadaan untuk menjadi pemandu teksi.
Orang akan bertanya, mengapa kita perlu membayar pengawal keselamatan gaji yang begitu tinggi? Pada tahun 2011 syarikat2 keselamatan swasta telah membantah cadangan gaji RM700 setiap bulan gaji minimum untuk pengawal keselamatan.
Nampaknya seolah2 mereka mahu membayar gaji yang paling rendah kepada orang itu yang sepatutnya ditugaskan untuk melindungi kehidupan dan harta kita.
Oleh itu, Norazita mati kerana dasar-dasar kerajaan telah gagal. Beliau meninggal dunia kerana golongan pemerintah elit lebih berminat dalam mengeluarkan permit dan lesen, dan tidak berminat untuk melihat suasana keadaan jenayah yang sebenarnya.
Beliau meninggal dunia kerana tidak ada pembaharuan polis untuk memfokus semula keutamaan polis bagi membendung jenayah.
Dan dia meninggal dunia kerana gomen mengutamakan kepentingan kroni lebih daripada menjaminkan keselamatan rakyat biasa.- Liew Chin Tong,TMI
(Article di atas adalah terjermahan cara rambang dari article asalnya,"Why did Norazita die? oleh Liew Chin Tong - tumpang sekole)
Why did Norazita die?
The murder cum robbery of Norazita Abu Talib shocked the nation. She was brutally shot in the face by a security guard who was said to possess a fake identity card. The senseless death of the Ambank officer late last month has opened yet another can of worms pertaining to our worsening crime situation.
Why did Norazita have to die like that? Let me be blunt here; yes, we can blame UMNO leadership – for refusing to reform the police and for allowing cronies to run security firms.
There’s no need to cringe or get upset. Please bear with me. The facts are all there.
Criminals everywhere, yet they are looking for Communists
While the crime rate is high and the situation is said to be worsening – murder, rape and other violent crimes – the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional government is still obsessed with the Communists!
Our police are still operating in the Cold War mode as if the Communists are still lurking around the corner, notwithstanding the fact that Chin Peng is long gone and that the Haatyai Peace Treaty between the Malaysian Government and the Communist Party of Malaya was signed in December 1989. That was 24 years ago.
Yet Budget 2014 still allocates money to hunt for communists. (risikan keselamatan – “menjamin keselamatan negara melalui aktiviti risikan keselamatan secara sulit dan terbuka keatas ancaman komunis, anasir-anasir subversif dan pelampau, perisikan, pengintipan dalam negeri dan ancaman luar negara. – page 644).
As I said before, the crime rate is high. Never mind the police and the government statistics that suggest otherwise. Fear of crime drives demand for private security protection. In Kuala Lumpur, we can see the mushrooming boom-gates and guardhouses in middle class housing estates in recent years.
Hence, I was dumbfounded to read Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s Parliamentary reply to Er Teck Hwa, MP for Bakri, that the crime rate has fallen by half between 2008 and 2013. Is he actually referring to Malaysia?
While there are enough police personnel per capita (approximately 110,000 police to 28 million people), only a fraction is involved in direct crime fighting. Omnipresence of the police and quality investigation are two most important factors, yet half of the police personnel are in management, logistics (12 percent), special branch (5 percent), riot police (3 percent), and the communist-fighting paramilitary unit General Operation Force (15 percent)!
No reforms, more crimes, more overworked crime fighters
As a result, police patrols are not adequate enough. Crime investigators are overstretched and overworked. Only less than 10 percent of the police force are in the crime investigation department, with only about 2,000 are ranked inspectors and above with full authority to investigate. The heavy workload forces many to sleep on old sofas in ill-equipped police stations. My sympathy is with them.
The things you learn from CSI – whether in the TV series or in real life in some other developed and recently-developed countries – won’t apply here for obvious reasons. Science and intelligence-based investigations are a rarity in Malaysia. Confession-based investigation is still the order of the day.
Former Prime Minster Tun Abdullah Badawi announced the formation of a royal commission headed by former Chief Justice TunDzaiddin in December 2003 and a comprehensive 600-page report was submitted in May 2005. I guess the thick book is gathering dust right now.
And here come the private security firms
With high crime incidences and the refusal of the BN government to shift police priority from fighting communists to crime busting, it’s no surprise that there is a huge ready market for private security protection.
At first glance there seems nothing wrong with it. Private security firms must be highly controlled and firmly regulated. Once upon a time, it was extremely difficult for anyone to obtain a license to operate a private security firm.
In October 2011, the Home Ministry informed me in a Parliamentary reply that there were 584 security firms registered with the government. Two years later, the number jumped to 751.
The 2011 parliamentary reply claimed that there were 160,000 Malaysian security guards and another 1,049 Nepali former soldiers.
Now The Star reported (on 6th November 2013) that there are 400,000 security guards, of whom 150,000 are illegal foreign workers!
According to the Parliamentary reply: “lesen 2 (a) (syarikat kawalan keselamatan) adalah mengikut syarat-syarat seperti berikut:
a) Salah seorang pemegang saham terdiri daripada sekurang-kurangnya bekas pegawai tinggi Polis DiRaja Malaysia atau Angkatan Tentera DiRaja Malaysia yang berpangkat sekurang-kurangnya SAC II ATAU Kolonel yang memegang 30% ekuiti saham syarikat; ATAU
b) Salah seorang terdiri daripada sekurang-kurangnya bekas pegawai awam dalam kumpulan Pengurusan dan Professional yang pernah berkhidmat dalam sektor keselamatan selama sekurang-kurangnya lima (5) tahun yang berpangkat sekurang-kurangnya Gred 52 atau yang mempunyai sijil kursus keselamatan atau yang setaraf dengannya memegang 30% ekuiti saham syarikat.
c) Hendaklah ditubuhkan syarikat Sdn Bhd.
d) Mempunyai modal berbayar RM300,000.
e) Pegangan saham syarikat dimiliki oleh Bumiputra sebanyak 70%.
It seems that it’s not that difficult to set up a private security service firm in Malaysia.
Private security firms – why we can blame UMNO leadership
The root of the problem lies in UMNO-led privatisation – three phases of Build-Operate-Transfer of infrastructures – which was the main model in the 1980s, exemplified by the North South Highway. In the 1990s, utilities were privatised in a big way such as to independent power producers. Post-2000, UMNO was increasingly relying on its licensing power to placate an ever expanding lobby for contracts, permits, licenses and favours.
There can only be a certain amount of construction contracts to be dished out. But licenses and permits are more elastic. For instance, millions of foreign workers were and are still being brought into the labour force, resulting in a race to the bottom of wages for low end workers, many of whom are Malays.
In the private security sector, licenses used to be given only to very senior retired police chiefs or generals. But in recent years, UMNO politicians and their proxies received most of the new licenses.
For quick money, the UMNO-linked licensees are prepared to do anything. And there is practically no scrutiny. So, thanks to them, we become a nation of mercenaries in the form of foreign guards.
Failure of government, greedy cronies
The usual reply given whenever one is asked why locals are not hired is that “locals don’t want to work because the salary is low”.
This is always the wrong question to ask. In the current job market context, if a security guard is paid RM2,500 per month, I am sure many locals would rush to become one, especially former members of the armed forces and police, many of whom are forced by circumstances to become taxi drivers. But then again, junior entry level police are also very lowly paid.
So someone will ask, why should we pay security guards so much money? The private security firms even objected to a proposed RM700 per month minimum wage for security guards in 2011. It is as if they want to pay the lowest salary to the person is who is supposed to protect our life and our property.
What I am suggesting is that we must take an approach to understand the total and actual cost of public policies. Once everyone realises that it is not cheap to maintain law and order through private means, at some point the pressure will be on the government to improve on overall security and safety so that no one needs to hire private security protection.
And, ultimately we must ask ourselves, why do governments exist? Any Politics 101 course would parade Thomas Hobbes’ notion that government exists as “the necessary evil” to ensure that law of the jungle is not the order of the day, that there is peace and order. That’s the most essential duty of any government.
Hence, Norazita died because government policies have failed her. She died because the ruling elites were more interested in dishing out permits and licenses, and not interested to take a hard look at the real crime situation. She died because there was no police reform to refocus police’s priorities to curb crime. And she died because cronies’ interests triumphed over ordinary people’s concerns.- Liew Chin Tong,the Roket
cheers.
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