Organized Crimes Must be Nipped At The Bud....

MCA NGO Bureau would like to congratulate Starprobe in their expose on the beggars syndicate using "foreign" disfigured beggars at several night markets in Malacca.

The organized activities of these syndicates will tarnish, damage and eventually destroy our nation's image and reputation. The activities of these syndicates must be expelled and eradicated from our Malaysian public life as it is a poor reflection of our nation and government.

The Bureau is concerned with the methodology of these syndicates in using disfigured and defaced beggars who were beyond recognition. The fact that their fingers were maimed and removed seems to point to an effort to remove any form of identification.

What is there to guarantee that these beggars may not be foreigners or may have been abducted locally, defaced and maimed inhumanly and forced to be beggars and slaves to the syndicates for the rest of their life?

What if the syndicates resort to abducting locals instead of foreigners if the going is good and the return lucrative whereby it is more convenient and cheaper to abduct local victims using the same modus operandi?

The ugliness and the inhuman approach by these syndicates ought not to be tolerated. The Malaysian public must show their utter abhorrence's and contempt of this ugly and hideous crime.

The authorities must show their pro-activeness and seriousness by taking immediate and drastic actions to stamp out these activities before it is further rooted in our society.

In line with the Prime Minister's 6 NKRAs whereby reducing crime is primary on the list, the Bureau called upon the Police to take immediate actions to put a stop to the activities of these organised criminals.

The Police must not only be only hot on the heels of the taxi operators used to ferry the beggars but they ought to have made arrest and persecute the king pins behind these syndicates. There must be zero tolerance of these crimes.

We have seen how the authorities have lost in the war against Ah Longs, drugs and prostitution and similar syndicates as a result of our tolerances, attitude and inaction.

We do not want to see the activities of these syndicated beggars becoming a part of our daily sight and an ugly lifestyle that we have to live with .

We do not want to see the syndicates growing in force and influence such that we have lost our war against these organized syndicated crimes.

The Bureau noted with deep regret that organized crimes are fast growing and becoming a serious threat to our Malaysian peace, security and way of life. Of late many syndicated activities had rear its ugly head and surfaced into our public eyes. These activities foreign to our life had since been tolerated and accepted as our norms.