Another Snatch Thief Case on road 27

This afternoon around 2:30pm I was in my master bedroom and suddently heard a scream of a lady from outside of the road. My instinct told me it must another snatch thief. Immediately I looked out of the window and not to my surprise I saw a Malay guy carrying a handbag running to his accomplice on a bike and speed away. I tried to note down the plate number unfortunately it was too far. How I wish the boom gate is up already so that all these snatch thieve will be blocked at the entrance.

Another Membership Drive Coming Saturday!!

Hi all, there will be another membership drive this saturday (Nov 8) from 10am-12n at the park. For those of you who have yet to sign up and pay, kindly bring along your cheque book that day.

Security Update (31 October 2008)

Dear All,

Here's more progress. Attached is the form from Homeguards for you to fill up. They need your details for their database and I need you to fill in and signed form as proof to MBPJ that we have 85% of residents supporting us on the security scheme. The forms will also be available tomorrow at the meet-the-resident forum. Please bring along your check books as we are starting the collections from now.

Remember, we are starting this from ground zero so please have patience while we work out all the kinks. Our target is to kick off the security on 1st December.

For those of you who can make tomorrow (Saturday) and want to find out more information, please come to the field along Jalan SS22/31. We'll be there from 10.00am to 12.00pm to answer whatever questions you may have and to hear feedback and suggestions from you.

For those of you who can't make it tomorrow but would like to pay up, you can do the following:

• Fill up the form and sign it.
• Prepare the check of RM150.00 to Sri Lara Joint Security Services Sdn Bhd.
• Drop it off to my house: 143, Jalan SS22/27. My wife is home most of the time, otherwise leave it in my mail box.
• Alternatively you can also drop it off to Lim Ann Liang's house, which is next to mine: 145, Jalan SS22/27.

Mr Yew have confirmed that Mr Thomas, the head of police for DJ will also be there so good time for you to meet him. In case of emergency he's the best person to call, other than ASP Ranjit so be there to get his number. Our MP Mr Tony Pua have not confirmed if he can come but will be good PR for him if he shows up.

Below are more incidents that happened around us while we wait for the security scheme to kick off. We just have to get this going for everyone's sake!

FYI, I will be away for 2 weeks from next week so you will not hear from me. I will be worried and thinking of my house when I'm gone!

I look forward to meeting you tomorrow. Let's make this a reality to better protect our neighborhood.

Thank you.John Chen

(1) Happened today 31 October 2008 - It has happened again just ten minutes ago (10.30am Friday 31st Oct). An Indonesian maid was walking back home alone from a clinic, passing along jalan SS22/27 towards the playground. As she passed in front of my house 40 SS22/27 she was stopped by 2 young Malay boys in a white small car ( possibly a Kancil), one of them came down on the pretext of asking for direction. He grabbed her necklace and her shouting for help was too late for nearby residents to do anything as by then the car had sped away towards the main road near the primary school (22/33). We therefore need this road to be closed completely and have just 2 entry and exit roads for this area.

(2) Happened on 24 October 2008 - I would like to share this with you and alert all in our neighborhood. At 7.40pm on Friday 24 Oct 08 as I got out of my car in front my house in SS 22/35 two Malay/Indonesian guys in a motorcycle rode past me and suddenly the pillion rider in a faded pink T-shirt jumped out of the motorcycle and dashed towards me carrying a knife. I threw my handbag away and he grabbed it and they sped off towards the field. All was over in less than one minute! I hope we can speed up the boomgate before someone else falls prey.

(3) Week of 13 October 2008 - Narrated by John Chen. I was walking along Jalan 22/27A dropping off the DJROA leaflet circular to the houses last Sunday with my wife when I met a gentleman about to leave his house. He told me just a few days ago, his car a Renault MPV which was parked in front of his house was vandalized. In a matter of minutes, the thieves took off with some parts of his car, probably to sell to workshops. What more can I say??!! If we had the security guards 24/7 the thieves would have thought twice before coming into this neighborhood.

Another Attempted Robbery on SS22/35

I would like to share this with you and alert all in our neighbourhood

At 7.40pm on Friday 24 Oct 08 as I got out of my car in front my house in SS 22/35 two Malay/Indonesian guys in a motorcycle rode past me and suddenly the pillion rider in a faded pink T-shirt jumped out of the motorcycle and dashed towards me carrying a knife.

I threw my handbag away and he grabbed it and they sped off towards the field. All was over in less than one minute!

I hope we can speed up the boomgate before someone else falls prey.

Thks.

Sally

Security Update (25 October 2008)

Dear All,

I have more good news to share. We've had a number of security meetings with DJROA committee headed by Mr Yew to thrash out all the nitty gritty details of our arrangement and also with the security company of choice, Sri Lara Joint Security Services Sdn Bhd (a.k.a. Homeguards).

Here's the deal:

• DJROA will be signing a master contract with them to provide security services to 3 zones of DJ for a start. Our zone will be called zone B.
• You the residents will sign an individual contract with Homeguards. They will be going around to recruit each of the households. So please give them your corporation. There will be a form for you to fill and sign. I will also use that form to show to MBPJ that we've got the 85% supporters so please help to fill it up and sign it.
• They will collect RM50/mth for the fees from each of you. And it will be on quarterly basis. So each of you will have to pay RM150 every 3 months. Please make checks payable to "Sri Lara Joint Security Services Sdn Bhd".
• The bulk of the RM50 will go towards paying for their guards services. A small portion of that will be for our zone's development cost, i.e. to build the guardhouse, boomgates, CCTV, etc. The portion will vary depending on the number of household joining us. If less households joins us, then there will be less money for development. Only once we have collected sufficient funds for development then only will we be able to build the said items. As you can see money will be very tight. But we hope to be able to manage within it. If not I will come back to you to ask for more. As we had assured all we want to keep the cost to as low as possible and this RM50/mth is the bear minimum for now.
• Our targeted date to start the security is 1st December 2008. If we can collect sufficient funds earlier and if the guards are available, we may start off even earlier. But 1st Dec will be the latest date to start.
• We plan to start with 9 guards on 3 shifts x 8 hour per shift, i.e. 1 guard each per entrance and 1 guard to patrol. Once we have collected sufficient funds, we will hire more guards. Our optimum is 15 guards, i.e. 2 guards per entrance and 1 guard on patrol i.e. 5 guards on duty per 8 hour shift. We will slowly build towards that number depending on how many supporters we have paying up.
• All guards are local. Home guards will provide a manager as head of security who will be the main point of contact for all residents. He will be based at DJROA center daily on 8 hour shifts to manage all the guards and also to liaise with the residents on issues pertaining to security. Each shift will have a supervisor who will be in charge of the guards. That supervisor will also be going around to collect the payments from you 1 month before it is due. Please make it a habit to pay him just like how you've been paying the newspaper man every month.
• We will be provided with 3 emergency contact numbers. First line of contact in case of emergency is a dedicated mobile number of the supervisor on duty who will be able to response the fastest as they are on site. The second number is the emergency Call Center number. And the third number is the Manager's mobile number. All these emergency numbers will be displayed at the guard house.
• Once you sign up, a small plate will be displayed on your gate. So this way we will know who are supporters and who are not. I hope to see that plate on ALL the gates of this neighborhood.
• We will also be making car stickers for the supporters of our zone. It will be similar to the other zones differentiated by color. How much it will cost you we are still working that out and will inform shortly.
• To make our neighborhood more secure we will close up the small road SS22/33 leading to SS22/48 with a boomgate. It can be open during emergencies. The guards will have the keys to the padlock. We will also close up the two small back lanes, i.e. between roads SS22/29 and from the LDP leading to SS22/32.
• We are organizing a meeting for all of you to meet the management of Homeguards this 1st November, i.e. next Saturday at the field on Jalan SS22/31 from 10.00am to 12.00noon. All the details will be available at this meeting.
• I will be there with my sub-committee so you can come and give us feedback. We have also invited the head of police for Damansara Jaya Mr Thomas and the MP of our area Mr Tony Pua to be there. If they show up you can ask them whatever questions you want. Mr Yew Cheng Hoe, Chairman of DJROA will also be there to show support. So please bring along your check book as we will start the recruitment drive on that day. We will ask you to fill up and sign the form on the spot.
• We are reviewing the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) with them right now and will circulate it once we have confirmed it. That will contain all the rules and regulations, do's and don't that will govern the guards and also the inconveniences that we can expect.
  Remember, if it inconveniences us, it will also inconvenient the would be robbers, car jackers, snatch thieves, etc and hopefully they will leave our neighborhood alone. So please be there on 1st November to ask all the questions you want.
• And for those who had pledge monetary support for this scheme, we will be requiring you to issue a check for your pledge amount to "DJROA". Two of you had approached me to say they want to keep their identity confidential and asked to pay to me directly. While I will not encourage it, but if you trust me with your money I will collect it from you and pass it on to DJROA on your behalf. Just let me know. Thanks very much for your contribution. It will certainly help to build up the development fund.
• As this scheme is supported by DJROA, I encourage all of you to sign up as DJROA members too. It only cost RM20/year or RM80 for lifetime membership. DJROA is a non profit association and survives on the membership fees and contributions of the residents. The main thing you get out of joining DJROA as a member is this security scheme that they have helped set up for all of us. Another benefit is the use of the clubhouse facility. The main purpose of DJROA is to foster friendship among the residents. They organize various events for you where you can get to know your neighbors. In the pipeline which Mr Lim Ann Liang and I are involve in as DJROA EXCO committee is the annual dinner and golf tournament (I'm the organizer!), both to be held in March 2009. The membership forms will be there on 1st November. I have now joined as a lifetime member. To join is voluntary, so I encourage you to join to show your support for your neighborhood association.

Attached is the circular that we will be dropping into your mail boxes. It is for those that I can't reach via email. We will also drop it off into all the non supporters/detractors mail boxes. So I am expecting a few of them to show up on 1st November probably to protest what we are doing. If you are there, I hope that more of you can also help us talk to them that this security scheme is a good thing for all the people living in this neighborhood, the inconveniences is for our safety and the small price to pay is worth it. Some of the detractors we had met had been quite adamant against this and some were quite rude to us about it. We met all kinds but we still persevered. Thank goodness the majority of you are supporters and have given us the moral support to get to where we are today. We truly appreciate all your kind words and support.

I must thank you all of for having the patience to stay with us and believing in us that we can get this done. It has been a very long road (4 months) with unbelievable number of obstacles. We've got a great bunch of people in our sub committee working tirelessly and dedicating their time to helping see this security scheme to success. I must thank all of them for their efforts. The only thing thing we get out of this is to see our neighborhood a safer place to live in for all of us.

I'd like to take this opportunity to wish all our Hindu friends a very Happy Deepavali! May the light shine bright for us and show us a way out of this economic mess that this world is in.

All the very best.