KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Putrajaya is aiming to reduce the crime rate by 5 per cent every year by 2020, according to the 11th Malaysia Plan tabled today.
The government’s five-year plan to turn Malaysia into a developed nation by 2020 also aims to improve the police’s response rate to eight minutes.
The Barisan Nasional government further planned to increase public perception of safety to 60 per cent.
The Performance Management & Delivery Unit’s director for crime reduction Datuk Dr Amin Khan said last January that public perception of a high crime rate was not reflective of the fact that the crime rate has fallen by 40 per cent in the past five years from 2009 to 2014.
Putrajaya’s claimed success in reducing crime as demonstrated by official data showing a drastic drop in the crime index has been challenged by opposition lawmakers and watchdog groups who insist the situation on the ground did not match what was depicted by statistics.
Some opposition lawmakers have also accused Putrajaya and the Home Ministry of manipulating crime data to achieve the decline in the index.
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