Sunday, July 10, 2016

Kerajaan Digesa Hapus Lorong Tikus Bekal Senjata - Akhbar Satar

 

Kerajaan perlu menghapuskan “lorong tikus” yang membolehkan penyeludupan senjata ke negara ini, kata Pengarah Institut Jenayah dan Kriminologi di Universiti HELP. “Kerajaan perlu gunakan dron dan kamera berdefinisi tinggi,” kata Datuk Akhbar Satar.

Beliau menyeru penempatan pegawai yang berintegriti, tembok konkrit dan pagar dawai berduri di sepanjang sempadan. “Ini boleh menghalang penyeludupan senjata ke negara ini,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan.

“Keselamatan tidak boleh dirundingkan.”

Beliau berkata demikian mengulas beberapa kes tembakan yang berlaku beberapa bulan mutakhir ini.
Keselamatan negara lazimnya diukur mengikut jumlah kes berkaitan yang berlaku dalam satu-satu tahun, kata Akhbar.


 “Kadar jenayah turut memasukkan jumlah pembunuhan yang berlaku.”

Pejabat PBB berkaitan Dadah dan Jenayah (UNODC) melaporkan purata pembunuhan di Malaysia antara 500 ke 600 kes setahun manakala statistik Pemandu menunjukkan 498 pembunuhan pada 2015, iaitu kurang daripada dua orang dibunuh sehari. “Di Thailand, purata pembunuhan adalah tujuh orang sehari.”

“Mengikut nisbah penduduk kita, secara kasarnya kadar pembunuhan di sini menyamai Thailand.”
“Akhbar kemudiannya menjelaskan modus operandi pembunuhan berupah yang digunakan oleh dunia jenayah.

Pembunuh upahan diupah oleh satu pihak atau kumpulan penjenayah terancang untuk menghapuskan sasaran. Ia melibatkan kontrak antara dua pihak iaitu satu pihak bersetuju membunuh sasaran untuk ganjaran tertentu.

Dalam erti kata lain, mereka membunuh demi keuntungan.
      
Pembunuhan berupah sering dikaitkan dengan cemburu, dendam, menyembunyikan sesuatu, motif politik, atau menghapuskan saksi atau pesaing perniagaan. Perebutan kuasa antara kongsi gelap melibatkan dadah atau pelacuran boleh memburukkan lagi pembunuhan-pembunuhan seperti itu.

Walaupun di negara yang bebas senjata seperti Malaysia, hakikatnya terdapat pembunuh upahan menjual khidmat di negara ini, dakwa Akhbar.

“Mereka menawarkan khidmat pada kadar tertentu.”

Kadar bergantung kepada profail sasaran, dan dipercayai purata kadarnya dianggarkan antara RM5,000 hingga RM100,000.

Pembunuh upahan diupah melalui saluran dalam dunia jenayah. Golongan itu juga boleh ditemui dalam Dark Web, melalui enjin carian khas yang dikenali sebagai TOR (The Onion Router) untuk memasuki laman-laman sesawang tersembunyi.

Memetik beberapa kajian, Akhbar mengenalpasti tiga jenis pembunuh upahan: amatur, semi-profesional dan profesional.

Di Malaysia, katanya, kebanyakan pembunuh upahan merupakan semi-profesional. Sasaran lazimnya dibunuh di lampu isyarat atau kedai-kedai kopi. Tindakan mereka dirakam oleh kamera litar tertutup.

Bukti fizikal tertinggal di tempat kejadian atau kawasan berhampiran yang akan kembali mempertanggungjawab mereka diatas pembunuhan itu.

Akhbar menyenaraikan kejadian-kejadian terbaru dalam kenyataannya.

Kejadian terbaru melibatkan seorang ejen hartanah ditembak pada jarak dekat oleh dua penembak tidak dikenali yang menaiki motorsikal semasa mangsa menaiki kenderaan jenis MPV mewah di Taman OUG, Kuala Lumpur.

Dalam kejadian itu, keluhnya, anak perempuan mangsa yang berusia lapan tahun turut ditembak dan dalam keadaan kritikal. Mangsa bersama lima anak dan seorang orang gaji ketika dua lelaki menaiki motorsikal mendekati kenderaan dan melepaskan tembakan.

Sebelum itu, seorang lelaki terselamat walaupun ditembak enam kali oleh seorang penunggang motorsikal pada 29 Jun di kilometer 3.5 di lebuhraya Kuala Lumpur – Seremban.

Pada 21 Jun pula, dua pengguna jalanraya cedera selepas ditembak di lampu isyarat jalan utama Sunway Batu Caves. Ahli PKR Sarawak Bill Anak Kayong turut ditembak mati pada hari yang sama oleh seorang individu tidak dikenali di simpang lampu isyarat di Miri.

Sebelum itu pada 15 April, dua lelaki ditembak mati di Sabah selepas lapan tembakan dilepaskan ke kenderaan yang mereka naiki.

(Baca kenyataan penuh Datuk Akhbar Satar di bawah);

Can we be safe again??

Datuk Akhbar Satar,
Director, Institute of Crime & Criminology, HELP University

There have been several shootings cases that takes place in Malaysia these few months, with the latest taking place a few days ago a real estate agent was shot dead at close range by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle while driving her luxury MPV in Taman OUG here. During the incident, her eight-year-old daughter, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, was also shot and is in critical condition. The victim was driving with five children and a maid when two men on a motorcycle approached the vehicle and opened fire.

Before the latest incident on 29 June a man survived six gunshots from unidentified motorcyclist at 3.5 Km off the Kuala Lumpur – Seremban highway. On June 21, two motorists were injured when they were shot at the traffic lights interception of the main road with Sunway / Bate Caves.  Miri, Sarawak PKR branch secretary Bill Kayong was also shot dead on 21 June by an unidentified person at the traffic light junction in his Sarawak hometown. Prior to that on 15 April, two men were shot dead in Sabah after eight shots were fired into the vehicle they were in. On April 15, two men were shot dead in Sabah after eight shots were fired into the vehicle they were in.

It should always be remembered that safety and security of a country is normally measured by the number of related crimes that take place in any year. Crime rate also incorporates the number of murders happened. Based on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) the average homicide in Malaysia is 500 - 600 cases per year whereas Pemandu statistics showed that there were 498 homicides in 2015 which means slightly less than 2 persons are murdered daily. In Thailand the average homicide is 7 persons per day.  Going by our population ratio, we are therefore roughly the same rate as Thailand.

Contract killers or hit men are hired killers employed by one party or organized criminals to kill a target individual. It involves an illegal contract agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for some form of payment. In other words they kill for profit.

Contract killing is associated with acts of jealousy, revenge, cover-ups, political motives or elimination of witnesses or business rivals. Such killings can be escalated by gang wars over control of drugs or prostitute trade. It is now a known fact that even in Malaysia with a gun-free environment there are contract killers who ply their trade. They provide their service for a fee. The fees depend on the profile of the targets.  It is believed that average price for a hit is between RM5000 to RM100, 000. They hired through gangster channels. They can also be found in the underground internet Dark Web, by using a special search engine known as TOR (The Onion Router) to get access to these hidden sites.

Revitch and Schlesinger and Schlesinger identified three general types of contract killers: the amateur, the semi-professional and the professional.

The amateurs are probably best characterized as the inexperienced, career criminal or drug addicts who take a few hundreds to kill someone’s spouse or other related persons. Their planning levels are low, often impulsive, disorganized and often leaving physical evidence as such these amateurs easily caught by the police.

Semi-professionals plan their actions in an orderly and systematic manner.  Their targets are mostly business associates, criminals or political rivals.  These hire killers compared to amateur normally leaves little evidence but the police still have means to find them out.

The third types or the professional contract killers are smart criminals with who are orderly, systematic and well organized.  They work for organizations or gangs or as freelance and carry out high profile killing among the organized criminals or any special targets.  In order to perform a perfect murder, the professional killers ensure the absence of physical evidence to be detected by the police and with elaborate body and effective staging.

In Malaysia most of the contract killers are semi-professionals. Targets are normally killed at traffic lights or in the coffee shops.  Most of their actions are captured by CCTV cameras. Physical evidence is something left behind at or near the crime scene that would point to them as responsible for the murder.

According to The Daily Telegraph disclosed almost seven out of ten murders are solved using footage captured by CCTV cameras. In 90 murder cases over a one year period, a good quality CCTV was used in 86 investigations, and senior officers said it helped to solve 65 cases by capturing the murder itself on film, or tracking the movements of the suspects before or after an attack.

The government is blaming smuggling along the Thai-Malaysian border for the rise in the number of illegal guns coming into the country. But border law enforcement agencies have successfully stopped numerous attempts at smuggling weapons into Malaysia.  Even though the Malaysian authorities are increasing their efforts to stop smuggling across the border yet many Malaysians are still not convinced the government and border guards are doing enough.

The government’s announcement that the Anti-Smuggling Unit (UPP) involving three core agencies, namely, the Royal Malaysian Police, Immigration Department and Royal Malaysian Customs Department be upgraded into a Border Security Agency is a good move.  But the agency must be a strong single, independent agency tasked to patrol borders only.  The special unit must also be trained, possess knowledge on investigation and the country’s laws. The government has to provide sufficient budgets and they are equipped with latest technology gadgets such portable device that enables officers to scan for concealed weapons in Rantau Panjang, Bukit Kayu Hitam and Padang Besar check points.

The government should also find ways to overcome the presence of “lorong tikus (rat lanes) which make it possible for the Thais or Malaysians to smuggle weapons into the country without going through the immigration checkpoints.  Using drones, HD security cameras, placing integrity officers and building high concrete and barbed wire wall along the border can prevent smugglers from smuggling weapons into the country.

 Security and safety is non-negotiable for our country!