Malaysia - Snatch Thief

The current anxiety about public security is directly related to the sudden surge in the reporting of crime, especially how three snatch thefts resulted in the deaths of two women and one man. Chin Wai Fung died in Brickfields in May when she fought back against a snatch thief. Then Chong Fee Cheng fell, went into a coma and died while resisting a snatch thief in Johor Baru in mid-June. This was followed by the killing of Rosli Mohamed Saad who had gone to the aid of an Indonesian woman whose bag was snatched in Ampang in June 29. Rosli chased and caught the thief who then stabbed him twice. "Petty theft" which is how snatch theft has traditionally been classified under the Penal Code had taken on serious proportions and caused the deaths of three innocent Malaysians.

Other cases of snatch thefts were also reported. The headlines included: "Four in court for snatch thefts", referring to cases which occurred in Sungai Petani; "Teenager remanded for seven days for snatch theft", referring to another case in Kuala Lumpur; "NS trainee helps bring habitual snatch thief to justice", an incident occurring in Tampin; "Policewoman's handbag snatched," a case in Malacca; "Suspect pays with his life in botched handbag grab" in Klang. "Victim who was left paralysed", was the headline of an interview with a victim of a snatch theft in Damansara in 1996; "Snatch thief gets 30 months", a case in Kuala Lumpur; and "Snatch thieves get MPs' attention".

The newspapers also carried statistics on the number of snatch thefts. Relying on police statistics, Penang Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon revealed that there had been a total of 515 cases of snatch thefts in Penang between January and May 2004. Of these 327 had been solved with the arrest of 52 people, mostly drug addicts (The Star, 16 June 2004 and 19 June 2004). Meanwhile the Perak CPO reported a total of 374 cases of snatch thefts in his state during January to May 2004 (The Star, 8 July 2004).

Citing police statistics, Lim Kit Siang, MP for Ipoh Timur, revealed in Parliament that there had been an increase in the number of reported snatch thefts these past years: from 14,368 reported cases in 2001, to 14,640 cases in 2002, to 15,798 cases in 2003 (The Star, 6 July 2004). The Deputy Minister of Internal Security Datuk Noh Omar further revealed that there were 5,517 reported snatch theft cases during the first five months of 2004. The problem of snatch thefts is obviously widespread especially in the urban areas.

The problem could be even more serious. Based on a survey which it conducted between 1-6 June involving 337 respondents, Nanyang Siang Pau (6 July 2004) reported that 50% of the respondents had been victims of robbery, snatch thefts and sexual harassment. Of these victims, 61% were females while 89% lived in urban areas. Significantly, only about half of the victims (50.3%) had lodged police reports. Among the reasons offered for not reporting to the police were: "Police unable to help" (45.2%); "no evidence" (29%); and "procedure for lodging report was troublesome" (11%). Nanyang surmised that there was a "lack of confidence in the Police". Michael Chong, who heads the Malaysian Chinese Association's Complaints and Services Bureau, similarly remarked that many victims of snatch thefts did not lodge police reports (The Star, 6 June 2004).

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[BuddyAcesRussia]

Singapore and Malaysia Police should join together man

[nonameguy8888]

fuck thief.......

[N0madlc]

Parasites doesn't even begin to describe these people. Lay off the crystal and get a real job you pathetic little fucks.

[szdwe]

malays are parasites ;fact

[mj2j46]

If Malay get caught you must not beat them and the police get them released. A foreigner (African) helped a woman that was attacked by a thief and kick the hell out of the Malay guy...the next thing police came and was asking for the passport of the helper...leaving the thief!!!

[TonokoMotoko]

Those snatch thieves are obviously gay little monkey-boy transvestites. Why else would they specifically steal womens purses? I bet when they go straight home after a 'snatch', they put on dresses/lipstick and twirl their newly stolen purses while making kissy faces in the mirror.

[starringxorgxjai]

@jackaleyess in my part of town, its otherwise man. yet i'm not saying chinese are born to be gangster

[jackaleyess]

@starringxorgxjai i aint being racist.. but tats the fact in malaysia.

[starringxorgxjai]

@jackaleyess dude? y so racist man.

[jackaleyess]

usually chinese thieves get caught will get beaten up but malay thieves get caught.. police will release them.. in malaysia, govt using double standard. therefore, more and more those malay parasites lurking in the public.

[fardly83]

please watchout your word, before this my friends also kena ragut with chinese boy, they come together with indians.. grab also chinese female infront banks... but they has been crash with taxi guy and all snatch theif has been beat by pople and take by police.