KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 — Burglars yesterday attempted to invade the Kuching home of Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar but were thwarted after they triggered the alarm system.
Security personnel were alerted at around 3am, but the burglars were able to flee before they could be apprehended.
“When they went to check the house, two suspects were seen fleeing the scene on foot through the front road. They tried to chase but failed to catch the suspects,” ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad, the head of Kuching police, was quoted as saying by The Star on its website today.
“Upon checking the deputy minister’s house, it was believed the suspects forced entry through the fence on right side through an empty house.”
Wan Junaidi and his family were not home at the time.
In July, the home of Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin in Bukit Damansara was broken into by three robbers, who also accosted a domestic worker who as in at the time.
The incident had illustrated the problem of growing crime in Malaysia that was increasingly forcing citizens behind walled-off communities.
Putrajaya’s efficiency unit PEMANDU last year reported a 10-per cent reduction in index crime for the first half of the year, along with an 11-per cent reduction the previous year and a 39.7-per cent drop in street crime for the same duration. The media was also blamed for reporting news of such cases.
But these figures were quickly undressed by anonymous and former police officers as well as a crime watchdog who alleged the impressive reductions were nothing more than statistical sleight of hand.
The authorities had defended themselves from such accusations by insisting the numbers were not doctored and that the growing presence of anecdotal crime reports in social media was simply a “perception” rather than fact.
