Singaporeans not target of crime, says Johor police chief
SINGAPORE — Johor police chief Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff has assured Singaporeans that they are not the target of crime in the Malaysian state.
SINGAPORE — Johor police chief Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff has assured Singaporeans that they are not the target of crime in the Malaysian state.
Speaking to the media in Singapore, he pointed out that the checkpoints saw about 17.5 million trips made by Singaporeans last year, and only 0.002 per cent — or fewer than 400 — were crime victims.
But he stressed that Singaporeans also need to be more careful, saying that some instances show that the victims may have been “a bit lax with safety”.
Nevertheless, he said the Johor police are doing more to heighten security in the state, such as installing around 1,000 closed-circuit television cameras in the Iskandar Region, raising the police-to-population ratio and increasing ground presence. CHANNEL NEWSASIA
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