Unsafe Ampang Point

Source: http://www.starproperty.my/PropertyScene/PropertyScene/21139/0/0 dated 3-May, 2012. AFTER years of operating at the Ampang Point commercial centre, the business community and shopowners no longer feel safe or secure due to many break-ins and robberies that not only happens during the night but in broad daylight as well. Grilles, doors and office locks do not stop the thieves, bags are snatched from customers eating at restaurants, car windows get smashed after a visit to the bank, pharmacies are robbed despite being equipped with CCTV cameras, and even children centres and IT companies are being broken into and robbed of laptops, cameras and cash. There have been too many cases and police reports made, but so far the criminal activities are still rampant and cases unresolved. Even houses in the Ampang residential area have not been spared. Ampang now has too many unsavoury characters; many liquor and medicine bottles can be found littered near the shops in the morning. The business community and owners will feel much safer if there is a 24-hour police booth in the centre of Ampang Point open carpark. More police patrol around the shops at night would deter break-ins and snatch thieves. We hope that by having a police presence in the community will help to reassure us of our safety, not only with regards to the properties but for each and every individual in the area. We sincerely hope that the Ampang police will look into our plight. BB, Ampang Point