Source TheStar
MIRI: Sarawak will need up to 13,000 police personnel to maintain law and order in the near future, said state police commissioner Datuk Mohmad Salleh.
Right now, the state has a police force of 7,000, but the number is expected to surge because of increasing social and economic development in the state, he said.
“We are recruiting personnel for all ranks and files, especially constables. The present number is not enough.
“The state will need between 12,000 to 13,000 personnel to fill the vacancies.
“We will construct training bases in major cities and towns and upgrade existing ones to cope with the intake,” he said after presenting donations to widows and orphans at Miri police headquarters in the run-up to the Hari Raya Adilfitri celebrations.
Sarawak, with a population of 2.3 million, is experiencing a population and infrastructure boom.
The cities and towns are affected by the fast pace of rural-urban migration.
Due to these social and economic changes, there has been a surge in crime in Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu and Miri.
Mohmad said that police had revamped their training intake procedures to churn out better personnel.
“We adopted a three-plus-three-plus-one formula for more effective training to produce personnel better equipped to handle their jobs as protectors of law and order,” he said.
The formula entailed three months of basic training, three months of on-the-job training and a month of intensive examinations, he said.
He hoped the method would produce police personnel who were all-rounders able to adapt quickly and efficiently to different working situations.
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