Update - robbery at Road 16

It was a robbery committed at Road 16 on Friday night and not a house break-in.

The victims were coming back in their car and were opening the auto gate to enter when 2 Indian men (looked like father and son) on a motorbike stopped opposite the house. The younger Indian man got down with a parang and demanded for cash. The older Indian man then came over as well and demanded for their mobile phones.

Merry Christmas

Security Update

Road 16 
House break-in at about 8:30 pm last night during heavy rain. 

Road 1 
Car stolen last week while it was parked near the school. 

Road 10 
Break-in at one of the shop houses last week near the Bible shop. 

We have been advised by the RT Chairman, Puan Eileen Thong to call 
Sgt Mat Din at 012 354 3687 for a speedy response  if we see anything suspicious. Sgt Mat Din is in charge of the MPV patrol cars.

Attempted Snatch Theft Incident

8:45 pm, Wed, 18 Dec - Attempted snatch theft incident at Jalan SS20/16.

Resident parked his car opposite his house, then walked to his house carrying a briefcase. He  was closing the garden gate when an Indian man came on his motorbike with a parang and tried to rob him. The victim shouted and the suspect went off. The suspect was alone. Did not manage to steal anything.

Alert - Dengue Fever

Dengue case in Central Zone!

Please take action against dengue.

Check your home and your garden regularly and remove any stagnant water.

Usual mosquito breeding places

Jiran Wanita Dinner

RT SS20 Jiran Wanita Annual Dinner held on 11 Dec 2013 at Extra Super Tanker Restaurant, Damansara Kim.

Police to install more CCTVs

Installation of CCTVs under the Royal Malaysia Police SafeCam Partnership project
 Read more ... 

Charity Bazaar at SStwo Mall

SStwo Mall together with G Prop Marketing & Management Sdn Bhd are doing their bit for a noble cause this festive season. Themed CHARITY FUN-D Bazaar – ‘Lend a hand, Shelter the needy’, the bazaar is endorsed & supported by Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ) under Zone SS2 councillor, Mr Tony Cheong as well as Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ) councillor, Mr Chang Kim Loong under its Community Welfare Division.

The bazaar to run every weekend on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 6pm starting 8th December 2013 till 26th January 2014 is organised to foster neighbourhood community living and to provide a platform for the less fortune / needy to sell and introduce their works, products and services. The objective of this event is to help those needy to earn some income and to help boost self-esteem of the less fortunate / needy by being independent and self-reliant.

For further information, collaboration and daily booth enquiries, kindly call 016-672 8068 / 012-611 7820.

Full line up of weekly activities and participating companies are available at www.facebook.com/dss2mallbazaar or www.bazaarss2mall.blogspot.com
Organiser: G Prop Marketing and Management Sdn Bhd

Snatch Theft Incident

Friday, 6 Dec 2013, 7:15 pm

Yet another incident occurred in the Central Zone. 

A lady was walking along Jalan SS20/13 next to the Central Zone field when a man on a motorbike came from behind and snatched her handbag, causing her to fall and be pulled onto the road.

We hope the police will step up patrol and do whatever is necessary to address the spate of crime that has hit SS20 in the past 2 weeks.

Burglary prevention

Based on the recent house break-ins in SS20, the modus operandi of most opportunist burglars goes like this: 

Once a house has been targeted, the burglar will ring the doorbell first to see if anyone is at home. If someone comes to the door, he will go off.

If the house is not occupied, he will prepare to enter the house.

Notify your neighbours if you are going away so that they can keep an eye on your house. Be alert to strangers loitering or driving slowly and checking out the houses in your area. If in doubt, alert the police by calling any of the following numbers:

1) SS20 Police Hotline : 016 3199 199

2) Balai Polis Petaling Jaya : 03 7966 2222

3) Bilik Gerakan Polis Bukit Aman : 03 2031 9999

Robbery - 1 Dec 2013

Received the following email from one of our residents.

" I am staying at Jalan SS20/6 and on Sunday, 1.12.2013 @ 3.30pm, I was robbed in front of my house gate (outside) as I got off my car which was parked outside the gate.  An Indian looking man parked his motorbike in front of neighbour’s house and started to take something from the luggage compartment while looking at neighbour’s house – I thought he was delivering a package / letter to neighbour and he suddenly ran to me with a parang and demanded I gave him my handbag – we were about 6 feet away face to face as I managed to step back.  I threw the handbag towards him where he frantically took it which was lying on his feet and he ran to his motorbike and rode towards the other end of the road (not the highway direction) – he in fact came from that direction too, not from highway side.  The number plate was WUW 7940, black coloured motorbike which has the look of a Honda cup (quite seasoned).

He has a moustache, age range 35 to 40 years, height about 5’ 6” and is alone (no accomplice).

This episode was witnessed by a man who was walking from Wisma TA to his car which was parked opposite my house but he rushed to his car and drove off out of fear without assisting me."

PJ International Fair

MBPJ invites you to the PJ International Fair 

Sustainable Lifestyle, Green Living

Date : 21 & 22 December 2013
Venue : Jalan Yong Shook Lin, Section 52 Town Centre, Petaling Jaya
Time : 8:00 am to 12:00 am

Official Launch - 21 December 2013 - Saturday, 8:30 pm

 Click here for details ....  

Security Alert - 2 Dec 2013

Sun, 1 Dec – 9:30 am

Intruder climbed over gate and tried to take handbag from a house in Road 13. Neighbour shouted, thief ran off and threw the handbag on the road. Nothing was stolen.

Mon, 2 Dec – 7:15 am

Suspicious behavior. Car drove up to a house, a Chinese man went down from the passenger side, pressed door bell.  Owner appeared, man went back into car and drove off.

Mon, 2 Dec – 7:40 am

Attempted house break-in at Road 8. Suspect Honda with plate no. WEW 8678.

Mon, 2 Dec – 8:15 am

House break-in at Road 15. Chinese men armed with parangs broke into house. House owner and wife were still sleeping when they heard noise. The intruders demanded cash. The suspects were seen to have operated from 2 cars, a Mercedes and a Honda. 

PJU Health Campaign 2013

You are invited to the Petaling Jaya Utara Health Campaign 2013 on Sunday, 8 December 2013.

PJ council invites feedback on changes of Draft Plan

RESIDENTS are invited to give feedback on the proposed changes to the Petaling Jaya Local Draft Plan 1 (RTPJ1) and Local Draft Plan 2 (RTPJ2). They can do so at the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) headquarters in Jalan Yong Shook Lin.

MBPJ has made amendments to the RTPJ 1 (second amendment) and RTPJ 2 (first amendment).

“These changes are done based on public suggestions and comments during our workshops with them,” said Petaling Jaya mayor Datin Paduka Alinah Ahmad.

She said during the full board meeting that the changes were necessary in view of MBPJ’s future transportation and development plans.

Changes in the RTPJ 1 include one light rail transit (LRT) station in Taman Jaya, which is made as part of MBPJ’s Transit plans (Zon Perancangan Transit) for 2014.

In RTPJ 2, 21 plots of land have been earmarked for a change in land status.

The affected plots include state land, recreational reserve land and public space.

In addition, there will be six changes involving public transport services.

Mass rapid transit (MRT) stations include the one at 1Utama, The Curve, Dataran Sunway and PJU5.

Other train stations include the Ara Damansara LRT station and the Setia Jaya commuter station.

Residents can view the full plans at Menara MBPJ from now until end of the year.

Clean up to fight dengue

PETALING Jaya City councillors are urged to organise regular gotong-royong sessions in their area as a way to battle the increase in dengue cases this year.

Between January and Nov 18, a total of 2,067 dengue cases were recorded by Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ).

Sixty areas in Petaling Jaya have been identified as dengue outbreak areas, with nine areas marked as “out of control.”

“Our initiatives of fogging and larvaciding will not help bring down the numbers if the public do not do their part as well,” said mayor Datin Paduka Alinah Ahmad.

She said during the council’s full board meeting that in most dengue cases, the source was found in the victim’s home and not in the surrounding area.   Read more ...... 

Security alert - house break-in

Friday, 22 Nov 2013, 10:19am
House break-in at Jalan SS20/14.

Intruder in a black MYVI was going round Central Zone 15 minutes before he broke into the house at Jalan SS20/14. He appeared to be a young man, slim, wore a dark shirt with stripes and black pants, like an office worker.

He parked his car in front of the house, forced open the gate, then went back into his car and drove off. A few minutes later, parked his car further away and walked to the house. Seemed to have operated alone.

Police were alerted about half an hour after the intruder left the house.

Missing metal drain covers

Keep a close eye on the metal drain cover outside your house. Most of the covers have been stolen at Jalan SS20/21 last week and some at Jalan SS20/13, leaving gaping holes.

Security update from police - 14 Nov 2013

3 criminal cases reported last week.

1. House break-in at Jalan SS20/13.
House owner was away for 2 weeks leaving tell tale signs of an unoccupied house - accumulated mail and lights left on 24 hours.

2. Car break-in at Jalan SS20/10 and Jalan SS20/11. In both cases, the window of the cars were smashed and laptops were stolen.

Robbery at handphone shop

KLANG: A video footage showing two parang-wielding men robbing a handphone shop in Bandar Puteri, Klang, here has gone viral on social media sites.

The 1.42-minute video recording from the shop’s CCTV showed the men threatening a female worker with parang before ransacking the store.

Midway through the video, a customer is seen walking into the store and fleeing immediately upon seeing the robbers.

Suresh Kalyenannan, 25, who is the store owner’s brother, uploaded the video at 2am yesterday to warn the public about the robbers.

He said the thieves even snatched a gold chain from the neck of the frightened shop assistant.

“They left scratches and red marks on Ana’s (the shop assistant) neck,” he said yesterday.

He added that a barber next door came to Ana’s aid when she heard her screaming but the robbers had already fled the scene by then.

“She is still shaken by the entire incident,” he said.

The two suspects had allegedly entered the store on the pretext of buying top-up phone cards.

The owner lost more than RM1,000 in the robbery.

The video was first shared on the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foun­dation (MCPF) Facebook page before being uploaded on YouTube.

The video on MCPF’s page received more than a hundred comments con­demning the act while some called for the police to act immediately.

South Klang police chief Asst Comm Mohamad Mat Yusop said police were currently studying the CCTV footage.

“We have launched a manhunt for the suspects,” he said.

Armed with info to fight crime

THE Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) has embarked on a pilot project called the Electronic Sector or better known as (E-Sector) to help combat crime in Petaling Jaya neighbourhoods.

The project will see 24 police personnel gathering information from about 14,000 residents living in SS20, SS21 and SS22 Damansara.

Damansara police station OCS Mohd Isa Abdullah explained the details of the project to the residents recently.

He said the police would collect details such as residents’ identity card number, their vehicle registration, number of occupants in a house, and other relevant details.

He said the information gathered would be fed into an electronic system managed by the police.

The project involves three police officers put in charge of a residential zone, with the same officers conducting frequent checks in the area.

Mohd Isa said the E-Sector project would help the police to foster better ties with members of the community as well.     read more ,,,,,, 

Use of styrofoam to be phased out

THE Petaling Jaya City Council plans to ban the use of styrofoam food containers in stages starting from January next year.

To start with, operators at foodcourts managed by the council will be encouraged to use bio-degradable food containers.

The move is part of the council’s aim to become a low-carbon city.

The Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) Health and Environment Department director Dr Chitra Devi N. Vadivellu said styrofoam food containers were detrimental to both humans and the environment.

“Besides being said to be cancer causing, styrofoam that end up at the landfill are also slow to degrade,” she said.   .... read more .........

Coffee Morning - 9 Nov 2013

Coffee morning organized by RA SS20 Central Zone at the Community Policing Cabin at Jalan SS20/14 which was attended by residents from all 3 zones. Breakfast was sponsored by some of the residents.

Wanted by the police

Police are on the lookout for 4 Chinese men in a white Mercedes with the number plate WRN 1618. 

They are suspected to be involved in house break-ins and are armed with parangs. 

If you spot this car going round in SS20, please alert the police. They may also come in cars like the Toyota Camry or Toyota Vellfire.

Dengue cases spike due to current wet weather

PETALING JAYA: Dengue cases went up by 19% the past week to 1,680 cases compared to the previous week (1,408) - the highest recorded over 10 years - mainly due to the wet weather.
Selangor registered the largest increase with 1,142 cases (272 cases the previous week).
The cumulative total of reported cases of dengue fever nationwide from January to Oct 26 is 28,707 cases, a 58% increase from the same period last year (17,847), the Health Ministry said in a statement.
It noted that Selangor saw a significant upswing in cases since June, with 323 of the 408 current outbreak areas found in the state.
Out of the outbreak areas, 54 were identified as high-risk hotspots - 26 in the Petaling district, 19 in Hulu Langat, eight in Gombak and one in Sepang.    read more ..... 

Dengue prevention in the home

1. Tip out water from things like flower pot bases, plastic containers or tin cans. .

2. Store anything that can hold water undercover or in a dry place, including tyres, gardening equipment, toys, pails.

3. Throw out any rubbish lying around your garden like leaves in gutters, fallen palm fronds and unused containers or tyres.

Attempted Snatch Theft from a Car

Snatch thieves no longer use motorcycles to commit crimes nowadays. They are now using cars instead.

In a latest attempt on Tueday, two snatch thieves used a multi-purpose vehicle to grab a woman's gold chain. However, the woman narrowly escaped them in Desa Aman Puri, in Kepong.

In the incident which occured at 12.26pm, the footage was captured via a dashboard camera by another motorist. The video that was submitted to Malaysian Crime Awareness Campaign by Lim Kwee Han.

The video showed the woman walking past a stationary car before a man in the front passenger seat pounced on her in attempt to grab her chain.

However, the woman struggled to fend off the attacker and managed to escape.

Civilians are advised to be on constant alert for the car with the number plate, ADN 1555.

Desa Jaya police station official said the woman has yet to make a police report on the case.

He said the victm should make a report at the nearest station to help police in their investiagtion into the crime.

Happy Deepavali 2013

Seeing red over removal of security barriers

Taking action: MBPJ enforcement officers removing the barriers put up along Jalan SS22/41 and Jalan SS22/2 in Damansara Jaya during the operation.

RESIDENTS in SS22, Damansara Jaya are angry after the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) removed barriers in their neighbourhood.

They said MBPJ had acted in a high-handed manner by removing the barriers put up for their security along two roads in the area.

“There was no attempt to discuss the matter or even inform us about the action,” said Damansara Jaya Residents and Owners Association (DJROA) chairman Datuk Yew Cheng Hoe.

He said Damansara Jaya was one of the first neighbourhoods to implement and register its gated-and-guarded scheme with MBPJ.

He said a copy of DJROA’s application to implement the scheme was sent to the mayor’s office in 2008.    Read more  .......

Police seek help to tackle crime with CCTV

DCP Mazlan Lazim showing the ‘Safe Cam’ sign to be posted at premises during a briefing at the police headquarters in Kota Baru. — Bernama

KOTA BARU: Police have sought the cooperation of 20 government and private agencies in the state to tackle crime via closed circuit television (CCTV).

Kelantan deputy police chief Datuk Mazlan Lazim said under the Safe Camprogramme launched last year by the Home Ministry, owners of premises with CCTVs could assist the police by letting them have the recording of crime incidents in their area.

“We called them today for a briefing on the Safe Cam programme before initiating a memorandum of understanding with them on crime prevention.

“Among the advantages of being in the programme is that police will be patrolling their area more frequently,” he said in conjunction with the briefing at the state police contingent headquarters here yesterday.

The Safe Cam programme is an initiative under the 1Aman-United Against Crime campaign listed in the government’s transformation programme to reduce crime. — Bernama