Government Transformation Programme (GTP)

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Malaysia has now facing a lot of crime issues recently. This has made the crime issues to being discussed a lot in parliament. The authorities are now in great despair as the crime rates continue to get worst each day. The government has come up with a solution known as the Government Transformation Programme (GTP) that is introduce to help in transforming Malaysia into a better country (PEMANDU, 2010). This programme focused on areas that needed the most intention by government known as the National Key Result Areas (NKRAs). There were seven groups of NKRAs and reducing crimes is one of the priorities. This has shows that the crime is one of the major problems in Malaysia. Besides, the crimes itself can bring a lot of effects to Malaysian individual and society, economy, and relationship with other countries.
Nowadays, crime is a part of life in individual and society in Malaysia. It lingers around us from the start and it getting worst day after days. What crime could do to us? Let me explain. When crime has taken over a place, it would create chaos situation. This chaos make people feels afraid and become panic with this chaotic situation. Situation such as gun shooting and robbery somehow are getting viral and has become a popular event amongst Malaysian. Based on (“JPJ runner shot dead in his car”, 2013), there was a series of shooting events that had caused death of 4 people by assassins in separate places.
Moreover, crime also will disrupt Malaysia beautiful scenery. Activities like gangsterism and vandalism produce young Malaysia citizen with beast heart. What they can do? Public facilities are one of the most important thing to Malaysian daily life but this bunch of teenagers have conduct brutal action towards the facili...

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...ctant and may create a chaos among the residents. So, the authorities should create a neighbourhood watch to watch over the residents at night. They also can set up a few small hut for the neighbourhood watch to rest. The neighbourhood should also be well-trained with basic combat skills and have healthy fitness of body. With all this aspect, may aid to reduce the crime rate in the residential area. As for the government, they can make a campaign to reduce the crime rate. The citizen can be taught to put on fast act by calling police whenever crimes happen around them. They can shout “Help ,help” or make a noise that may attract attention of other people. In this campaign also, they can be taught how to prevent the crime such as robbery, stealing, and snatching. By take action on this uprising crime, we may provide a peaceful place of the youth to grow healthily.

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