GEORGE TOWN: Former prison inmates have high hopes of rejoining the community peacefully and take up jobs to earn a living, however this is not as easy as it appears to be. To tackle the problem, the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) made a working visit to the Seberang Perai Prison to discuss with its…
KUALA LUMPUR 6 Jan. – Akta Bahan Khayalan perlu diwujudkan demi mengatasi masalah penyalahgunaan bahan-bahan tertentu untuk menjadi khayal. Naib Pengerusi Kanan yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Malaysia (MCPF), Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye berkata, setakat ini tiada peruntukan yang membolehkan Agensi Antidadah Kebangsaan (AADK) menahan mereka yang menyalahgunakan bahan-bahan itu. “Masalah ketagihan dalam kalangan belia bukan…
PETALING JAYA: Bullying in Malaysia has become a serious problem with a startling eight out of 10 surveyed claiming they have encountered bullying in schools, a Unicef survey revealed. This has led to a growing call for national anti-bullying laws to protect victims and witnesses when they report such cases. In conjunction with World Children’s…
GEORGE TOWN: Parents of young drug addicts must play a pro-active role to help the authorities in curbing the social menace, says the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF). Its senior vice-chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said MCPF supported the proposal by the National Anti-Drugs Agency (AADK) for the introduction of a new law to…
GEORGETOWN: Cadangan Agensi Anti Dadah Kebangsaan (AADK) untuk memperkenalkan undang-undang baru bagi pembabitan peranan ibu bapa dalam usaha pencegahan dadah disokong Yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Malaysia (MCPF). Dengan penggubalan undang-undang baru ini, pembabitan ibu bapa dalam usaha membanteras dadah dalam kalangan remaja dan pelajar dapat direalisasikan. Naib Pengerusi Kanan MCPF, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye berkata,…
GEORGE TOWN: Penang police and the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) Penang branch are jointly working to make Penang safer than it is now. For that purpose, both went on a study tour to the Indonesian National Police in Jakarta recently to learn how the country managed its major crime cases so that the same…
Image above clipped from The Star THE public needs to be careful of handphone calls from so-called ‘authority figures’ asking for money to avoid arrest of individuals. The caller’s ID would show a number spoofing the area’s police station. Penang Crime Prevention and Community Safety Department head Senior Asst Comm Datuk Mohamad Anil Shah (pic)…
PETALING JAYA: A criminologist has called for cyberbullying to be classified as a serious offence, saying it has pushed many people into self-harm and even suicide. P Sundramoorthy, an associate professor at Universiti Sains Malaysia, was responding to a recent report by security and privacy advice and comparison website comparitech.com, showing that Malaysia had jumped…
