Dear All,
By now all of you would have noticed that we continue to carry out what we had said we were going to do, latest being building of the 2 guard houses and installation of the boomgates. This could only happen because we have your financial support. To date for the second quarter (Mar-May 09), we have a total of 545 residents who paid up, including 10 new members. So a big thank you to everyone who have supported this security initiative.
Our next plan is to install CCTVs at the 2 guard houses, i.e. once we have the funds to do it.
We recognize that there are many weaknesses from your constant feedback, especially related to the attentiveness and efficiency of the guards. Rest assured we have taken note and will continue to address them. Changes and improvements will be on going. Recently we had a car stolen from the car porch of a house in our zone. That's the first car stolen since we started the scheme 5 months ago. There were a few house break ins too. No snatch thieves were reported to us. These intrusions just go to show that we should never take our safety for granted. Our security guards are at best a deterrent to crime. But crime can still happen when the will of the criminals is greater.
We have given instructions to the guards that the boomgates will be OPEN from 6am-9am and from 6pm-9pm from Mondays to Fridays. These are prime times with heaviest traffic going in and out of our zone. All other times, the boomgates have to be DOWN. The guards will now have no excuse but to check vehicles with no stickers going in. They also have the list of cars from the NON SUPPORTERS/FREE LOADERS who are living among us. They will be stopped, questioned before being allowed in.
For sure there will be an increase in traffic jams going in to our zone. I ask all of you to please exercise patience when there are cars in front of you being stopped and checked. DO NOT horn or try to over take those stopped cars. This inconvenience is for our own good. If you do not practice patience but show your displeasure at the guards who have been told to stop and check vehicles without stickers, what do you think they will do? They will eventually just let all cars in 'cos they do not want to get more scolding from the residents. Then this whole scheme will fail. So please help them and let them do their job properly.
It's again time to pay up for the next quarter, i.e. RM150.00 for June/July/August. For your convenience you can also opt to pay for the next 6 months until November, i.e. RM300.00. Many residents have already paid up to November. Please make CHECKS OUT TO "DJROA". Do not make any checks out to Homeguards any more as it is easier for DJROA to coordinate the collection.
You can either drop the check off in my mailbox (143, Jalan SS22/27) as before or to any of the guards at the guard houses. If you require the guards to pick up the check, please call 016 284 8798. Mr Kuljeet, the security manager will be going around to assist in the collection so please extend your support to him.
Thank you for your continued support.
John Chen
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I am a full-paying security residence (including buying stickers for all my extra vehicles) but I do not think we should be calling the non-paying residences "Free-Loaders". So what if my neighbour is not a supporter now? Does it mean that they have any less right a residence here than I have? Why should we be pointing out who are and are not supporters? And I also do not appreciate the list of resident’s full names and addresses being circulated, and showing who has paid and who has not.
I would like to remind all of us that when we bought our house here, this area was not a gated area, thus we bought our house with the knowledge that we need not be paying anything extra. And as far as we should be concerned is that we are all TAX-PAYERS, thus our security SHOULD be taken care of for FREE by the POLICE. So, as a tax-payer, I have every right to NOT pay extra for security. I am only doing so because I live here, and am "giving face" to the community here. I am happy and appreciate that you have taken the initiative to do this, but we should not put other people down just because they do not think the same.
Btw, I came home late (after midnight) several nights in the last 2 weeks, and the boom gate at SS22/31 was wide open. Anyway, I don’t think the boom gate makes much of a difference as it is only blocking one side of the road.
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