DON'T TRUST THE POLICE

You make plans to go on a trip for a couple of days especially during a festive break. So what do you do to secure your home.

You heed the call being made by the police every now and them to inform the nearest police station of your whereabouts, date of departure and date of arrival plus your contact no. Thinking that all would be well, you do just that.

You walk into the Taman Segar police station a day before you leave the house. They record the details and say "we will patrol the area".

Fours days later when you come back you find the front grilled gate open with the locks broken, door broken into and the house ransacked from front to back. The worst nightmare has just began.

You call 999 and you get connected with the police and when you do a stupid policemen says that you have to go to the nearest police station and lodge a poilice report.

So i tell this stupid policeman that my wife is frantic and traumatised to see the house which can no longer be secured but the stupid policeman insists.He advised us not to touch anything.

So we drive to the Taman Segar police station and another stupid policeman starts keying in the report and asks us what was missing. So we tell that stupid policeman that we were advised not to touch anything so how did he expect us to know what was missing. So by visually looking at the places which were encroached, weassumed the worse and that was jewellery stashed in very discreet places in the house stolen plus cameras and what have you.


Than the stupid policeman says that I should call the IO (investigating officer ) on my handphone which I did. And the IO whic is based at thePudu police station some 6 kilometres away says that I have to go there and sit before him so that he can record a statement. I did just that and told the IO that we were not in the position to come there and by right the police should be coming over. He grumbled and said that he would come.

Meanwhile i vented by frustration about our leave of absence and despite having done that, my house was broken into. They reply was "we cannot be watching your house 24 hours a day." And when we said that nothing happened on instances when we did not inform the police before leaving, the reply was; " We are understaffed. We only have 3 anggota ( staff ) at that particular station." What a load of crapp. If the stupid police force does not have enough cops , why bother having a police station to fool people that there is a useless police presence in your area?

The stupid policeman in the balai advises us that we go home and stay put and he will be coming over in a patrol car immediately to investigate .

We head home and an hour later the IO arrives. Mind you the immediate reponse team did not turn up as promised. The patrol car came an hour after the IO saying that they had to handle an accident nearby.

The IO starts to ask question and recorded the stuff which we knew for sure which were stolen. They inspect while another office takes pictures and dusted the area for finger prints.

Did you know that the Royal Malaysian Police Force, PDRM for short can only dust prints if there are any on glass or shinny metal surfaces and no where else. Wooden areas and other spots are out.


We lost all the jewellery which were cleverly hidden, my video camera, my Nikon SLR, all the watches and mind you the intruders had the audecity to enter the prayer room and ransack the place to remove jewellery which were kept for use on the deities as well as a bucket of coins which were saved for fulfilling a vow.

They even rancaked my rice container , salt container, dug into my salt lamp, broke a lot of porcelain stuff to name a few of the things which they did.

I impressed upon the IO that they carted away three large containers of 50 sen coins which were collected over the years by wife and something which was not easy to lift. A clue I said was that if someone attempted to cash in such a large amount of coins, your would get a lead. A blank look came from the IO.


After having done all that, they proceed to question the neighbours after giving a long lecture on why we sould not use Solex or Solex type locks as they could be undone with a sharp allan key type of tool.

They ask if there is an alarm system or a CCTV, both of which I do not have as I am not rich let alone famous but just an average Malaysian staying a typical housing estate type single storey terrace house, wanting to be safe in my own country.

The neighbourliness in KL sucks big time. You have neighbours who only know how to complain about your encroaching chiku tree, dried leaves which theyt have to clear and they even threaten to cut the tree which provides shade and fruits.

With all the commotion of intruders undoing your front gate locks and ransacking your house, breaking stuff, all they can say in "tak tahu" . Yes, they are Chinese. They even refuse to come out when the police were calling on them. A neighbour in front who is known to be the nosy one in the street says that he was not aroudn and did not see anything. His equally nosy wife was more interested to know what we lost . The stupid police team were actually condeming the Solex locks, cracking jokes and laughing rather than investigating. Another neighbour who we know for a fact never left home for kampung, told the police that they just came back minutes ago while the wife was seen collecting the dried clothes from outside.

So much for couldn't care less KL neighbours, Chinese in particular whose favourite reply is "tak tahu".

That was the end of the matter and the so called investigation by the stupid police of Cheras.

They managed to get 10 clear prints an God knows what will come out of it. The IO asked if we could identify our jewellery and "of course" we said.

The stupid police of Taman Segar police station asked us to come over again to the station to file in a "report tambahan" to which I said a detailed full blown statement had just been recorded plus photos taken and drawings done and I did not see the need for the "report tambahan".Oh , I almost forgot. They asked us why we did not "bela anjing".

SO what's the moral of the story?

1. Don't inform the stupid police when you leave town.
2. The police are not professional in handling crime victims.
3. Malaysians are not safe in their own country.
4. The police are a lot better in setting up road blocks and talking to motorists in the dark.
5. Burglars are ruthless and they know where to dig these days.
6. Don't trust the police.
7. As a Malaysian, you are not safe in your country.
8. Don't trust your neighbours.
9. No point being neighbourly.





For the record, my police report number is CHERAS/003647/10 dated 20/02/10 made in Taman Segar Police Station


May the burglars rot in hell with the police in tow.