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.
“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!
