Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan

At Your Serviceone essential element to help us carry out our duties effectively – the cooperationand support of the community we serve. We have to all come together, worktogether towards a common aim of eradicating crime and criminal elements inthis society.We have to realise that the fight against crime is a common, shared responsibility.As a community, we are all individually and collectively responsible for our uniqueroles in fighting crime and social ills. Community involvement in the fight againstcrime is essential in any civil society.Law enforcers patrol areas concerned periodically but cannot possibly beeverywhere, watching everything, for there are too few of us in numbers at themoment. It is members of the community who can best identify the problemsthey face, the dangers that lurk in their neighbourhoods, the suspicious charactersand the threats to their security.As law enforcement officers, policemenare public servants first and foremost, butI call on everyone to rise to the challengeof playing their part in the fight againstcrime from its roots. As members of thecommunity, we each have an individualresponsibility to our neighbour – we haveto play a part to ensure that our neighbourhousing area and our society is safe.We appeal to you to be our ears, our eyes in instances and situations when wecannot be there.Provide us with relevant information, report suspicious behaviour, call on us if youfeel unsafe, and work with us to enable us to serve you better.Community policing programmes are in no way novel. In fact, they form the fabricof almost every law enforcement agency in the world.74