KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — Inspections on the safety features of high-rise buildings such as flats, condominiums and apartments must be carried out periodically to ensure safety of the occupants.

Crime analyst, Datuk Akhbar Satar said periodical inspections on damaged fencings, for example, were important to prevent any undesired incidents especially involving children.

“The inspections include checking faulty fencing due to rust or even missing fence due to theft.

“If there is security fencing that is rusty due to exposure to the weather or the paintwork needed repainting then the necessary measures must be taken to delay the process of decaying,” he said when contacted by Bernama today.

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In addition, parents must ensure that their young children did not play near the fence, he said.

Akhbar said this when asked to comment on the incident where a five-year-old boy, Muhammad Hazriq Danish Alden, 5, died after falling from the sixth floor of the Public Housing Project (PPR), Seksyen 8, Kota Damansara, here yesterday.

Meanwhile, the president of the Malaysian Crime Prevention Awareness Board, Datuk Seri Dr Saharuddin Awang Yahya said the quality of the steel fence used especially in the Public Housing Projects, flats and so on must be given serious attention.

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“In addition, the residents must also play a role by reporting to the project management if there were any faulty fences,” he said. — Bernama