IDR to be policed by land, air and sea

IDR to be policed by land, air and sea

JOHOR: The Iskandar Development Region will not only have state-of-the-art technology in place but will also be policed by land, air and sea.

Disclosing this, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said a new marine base with two helicopters was being built in Tanjung Pelepas to protect the shores.

“We want to show our presence in the IDR, which will be complemented by an additional 400 policemen. The men would be deployed by October and we are also asking for more allocation to purchase additional patrol cars,” he told reporters after opening the new Sri Alam district police headquarters.

Sri Alam and Nusa Jaya are the two newly created police districts located in the IDR. It is learnt that the Johor police presently has 472 patrol cars, 220 of them in Johor Baru alone.

The IGP also said closed-circuit television cameras (CCTVs) would be installed in crime-prone areas in the IDR.

“The CCTVs will enable our men to trace and track down criminals who have committed crimes in any area in the region. All this will be in place soon. And I have instructed my men to ensure they live up to expectations.

“They must hit the streets and introduce themselves to the people and find out the problems they face in Sri Alam as well as in Nusa Jaya,” he said, adding that Johor would have a total of almost 7,000 policemen in the state by the end of the year.