SMS Hotline to Police, 30'000 strong

It started off as a project to get city folks involved in police crime prevention activities but Rakan Cop of Malaysia has since grown into a 30,000-strong force that has become the eyes and ears of the boys in blue, reports The Star via SMS Text News.

"Under the programme, the public would act as police lookouts and provide information on crime to the police’s Command Central Centre through its hotline or SMS.

Statistics showed that since Rakan Cop was launched the city police's crime-solving rate had improved tremendously. vSAC Jamaluddin said that before Rakan Cop was launched, city police received only about 700 calls from the public on its hotline and 2,435 in the form of SMS.

By last year, these calls had grown 10-fold and the SMS more than eight times. "

emily | 4:05 PM | Citizens as Informants |
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