SPATIAL PATTERN OF RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY. THE CASE STUDY: KUCHING, SARAWAK

Residents in Malaysia are mostly concentrated in urban areas. However, people do feel worried about residential burglary despite living in urban areas. Although burglary cases have recorded a decline, the fears of crime are still high among the people in Kuching, Sarawak. The objective of this study is to identify the spatial pattern of residential burglary in Kuching, Sarawak. This study is using Global Moran’s I method as it can evaluate the spatial autocorrelation of residential burglary in the global context. The spatial data consists of Kuching district boundary, road data, police station boundary and police sector boundary, while non-spatial data includes residential burglary from 2015-2017, time, addresses of the crime occurrences, latitude and longitude. The result revealed that the strong global spatial patterns were found for residential burglary in Kuching, Sarawak between 2015 and 2017. However, there was no global spatial pattern found for residential burglary in 2016

Spatial hotspot patterns of a home burglary in Penang

This study is based on property crime cases in the Northeast of Penang using GIS application for crime prevention. Studies based on the spatial elements showed that GIS application was able to reduce the crime issues. The purpose of this study is to identify the hotspots of home burglary based on time incident in Penang using GIS spatial statistics. Based on the report of house burglary cases from 2013 until 2015. Getis Ord Gi* was used to identify the high-risk areas of home burglary cases based on z-scores and p-values. The analysis shows that the areas of the hot spot cases of home burglary are the same for night and day incidents. In 2013, the hot spot areas at night were 7 areas, and during the day only 1 incident was identified. Hot spot increases in 2014 to 9 areas for nighttime incidents while daytime events also increased to 10 areas. While 2015 showed that the number of hot spots that occurred at night reduced to 5 areas and daytime incidents also recorded the same number of hot spots during the night incidents. Hot spot areas also frequently identified in urban areas and high population density such as Jelutong, Dato Keramat, Tanjung Tokong dan Sungai Nibong. The result showed that hotspots of home burglary are more concentrated in residential areas with good road network accessibility. This study can assist the authorities such as the Royal Malaysia Police (RPM) in preventing and reducing the crime index by using GIS applications

SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE THEFT IN KUCHING, SARAWAK

Vehicle thefts are raising concern among society because it contributes to the highest rate of property crime in Malaysia. GIS is an important base system that allows locating crime hot spots. The aim of the study is to determine the hot spot of vehicle theft with statically significant from 2015-2017 in Kuching, Sarawak. The spatial data for this study obtained from Kuching District Police Headquarters which include Kuching district boundary, police station boundary, and police station sector boundary. Attribute data were obtained from the police reporting system such as addresses of incidents and types of vehicle theft includes motorcycle theft, car theft and heavy machinery, truck and lorry theft. This study using Local Indicators Spatial Autocorrelation (LISA) technique. The outcome of the study revealed the location hot spots and a cold spots of vehicle theft across police station sector boundaries. Vehicle theft in Kuching, Sarawak is spatially concentrated. Hot spot of car theft mostly detected in Sungai Maong, Tabuan Jaya and Sekama police station boundaries where there are more shopping malls, hospitals, retails and restaurants whereas motorcycle theft mostly clustered in Gita police station sector boundaries, while van/lorry/bus and heavy machine theft tend to cluster in the industrial zone, which is included sector boundaries of Bintawa, Padungan and Tabuan Jaya police station. The findings of the study have a significant impact on the policing to combat vehicle theft by sector boundaries. Local Indicator Spatial Autocorrelation can help identify the risk area of vehicle theft and it is hoped that the outcome from this study can be contributed to the crime and other fields

Mengurus ruang jenayah: suatu tinjauan dasar pengurangan jenayah di Malaysia

Pelakuan jenayah merupakan antara fenomena permasalahan sosial yang melanda kebanyakan bandar di dunia. Permasalahan ini menunjukkan peningkatan dan menimbulkan reaksi kebimbangan pelbagai peringkat lapisan masyarakat sama ada di pihak pemerintah mahupun masyarakat awam. Pelbagai pendekatan dan usaha terus dijalankan dalam menanganinya, namun kadar jenayah negara masih kurang berkesan ditangani pada keseluruhannya. Artikel ini mengupas, meneliti dan mengetengahkan beberapa dasar yang telah dilakukan kerajaan Malaysia dalam mengurangkan kadar pelakuan jenayah di negara ini. Penelitian dasar difokuskan kepada penubuhan Yayasan Pencegahan Jenayah Malaysia atau Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) pada 1993 dan terbentuknya Program Transformasi Kerajaan (GTP) yang berprinsipkan ‘Rakyat Didahulukan, Pencapaian Diutamakan’ dan manjadi landasan pembentukan National Key Result Area (NKRA) atau Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara. Hasil tinjauan menunjukkan dasar pengurangan jenayah telah berjaya dalam membendung permasalahan jenayah negara secara keseluruhannya.Dapat disimpulkan bahawa kepelbagaian pendekatan dalam usaha pengurangan masalah pelakuan jenayah di Malaysia telah meningkatkan imej Malaysia sebagai antara negara yang diiktiraf di peringkat global sebagai paling selamat dan aman

Jenayah dan Agenda Pembangunan di Malaysia: Satu Tinjauan

Era kepesatan perbandaran dan pembangunan di Malaysia kini membawa kepada peningkatan pelakuan jenayah yang cukup membimbangkan sehingga mewujudkan rasa tidak selamat masyarakat awam keseluruhannya. Artikel ini membicarakan pendekatan ‘membasmi jenayah menerusi agenda pembangunan’ kerajaan Malaysia. Tinjauan ini mendapati strategi mengurangkan jenayah ialah mewujudkan persekitaran ke arah meningkatkan kualiti hidup dengan membangunkan kawasan kediaman berdaya maju dan menarik, membangunkan sistem pengangkutan awam yang mengutamakan rakyat, mentransformasi penjagaan kesihatan, menyediakan akses kepada perumahan yang berkualiti dan mampu milik, menyediakan utiliti dan perkhidmatan awam yang lebih cekap, menjadikan jalan dan masyarakat lebih selamat, dan melindungi khazanah alam sekitar. Hasil daripada pendekatan ini Malaysia telah berjaya mengurangan jenayah sebanyak 15 peratus bagi indeks jenayah dan 35 peratus bagi jenayah jalanan iaitu melebihi masing-masing sasaran 5 peratus dan 20 peratus yang ditetapkan bagi 2010

Konsep Bandar Selamat: Kronologi dan Pelaksanaan di Sabah

Pelakuan jenayah berlaku di kebanyakan bandar di dunia. Masalah ini semakin kompleks dan sukar dibendung. Konsep Bandar Selamat (KBS) atau (Safe City) diperkenalkan bagi menbendung permasalahan jenayah sekaligus meningkatkan kesejahteraan dan keselamatan penduduk bandar. Di Malaysia, pelaksanaan KBS pada tahun 2004 di bawah tanggungjawab Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa (JPBD) dengan menggariskan sebanyak 23 langkah pencegahan jenayah di peringkat awal pelaksanaannya melalui 3 strategi utama iaitu melalui (i) rekabentuk persekitaran fizikal, (ii) memperkasakan kawasan sasaran dan kegiatan sosial, kemasyarakatan, pendidikan (iii) kempen kesedaran. Namun begitu, KBS telah ditakrifkan dan distrukturkan semula pada tahun 2010. Di Sabah, KBS telah dilancarkan oleh Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (DBKK) bersama Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) dan kemudiannya diperluaskan ke daerah lain di Sabah seperti daerah Tawau dan Sandakan. Kertas kerja ini cuba mengetengahkan Bandar selamat dari aspek pentakrifan Bandar Selamat, latar belakang pengenalan dan kronologi pelaksanaanya di Malaysia juga di Sabah dengan lebih terperinci