Crime fighting

The Miri Police Narcotics division investigated 349 drugs related cases from Jan 1 to July 31 of this year. Four hundred and seventy-six (476) people were arrested for their involvement in drugs in Miri in the first six months of this year (2011). Miri police chief ACP Jamaludin Ibrahim disclosed this during the ‘Program Polis Bersama Masyarakat’ yesterday.

If this isn't a shocking number, then what is?

There was no public statement or it was not reported on the news on what the police are doing to curb this, or what is being done. What does this say about the state of drug crime related activities in Miri?

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Statistics for water meter theft for the year 2009 in major towns and cities in Sarawak:

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Miri ranks first in amount of reported case.

Source: United Daily News

Note: The costs for replacement of water meters are RM65 +/- each.

Bruneian Woman Victim Of Smash Gang In Miri

Last Updated on Monday, 16 November 2009 09:33 Written by Rosli Abidin Yahya Monday, 16 November 2009 08:09

Bandar Seri Begawan - Travellers to Miri are told to bi extra vigilant after another car owned by Bruneian had its side screen smashed wit] a blunt object.

A handbag was stolen from the car by an unidentified man who ran towards his partner waiting on a motorbike in front o the victim's car.

The incident happened in front of shop houses near a fast-food restaurant at 8 pm last week.

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My take :

If there has got to be one word to describe this, it's "consistency".

A 22-year-old Penan woman has lodged a police report claiming that she was tricked into going to Kuala Lumpur and telling the police that she had been raped by a logger.

The woman, from Long Item, said two men approached her at home last October and offered to bring her to Kuala Lumpur to seek treatment for her daughter, who was ill at the time.

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Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) said there was a strong possibility that some Penan women from Ulu Baram who were said to have been raped by loggers were living under tremendous pressure.

SAM field officer for Sarawak said the women might have been pressured to make public statements that they have not been raped or victimised.

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My take:
So which is it?? There's always things happening like this when the cases are huge - claims of one thing and suddenly another claim that it wasn't true, it was all a conspiracy.

This is a follow up to the previous news.

Rape of Penan women did occur

It has been confirmed that Penan girls and women were raped and molested by timber company workers in Sarawak’s Ulu Baram district.

A special committee, set up by the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry, revealed that sexual abuses against Penan women and girls by timber workers as reported by The Star last year did take place in the Baram district.

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