沙防范罪案基金会 与湖警方举行交流

沙防范罪案基金会 与湖警方举行交流

（斗湖十四日讯）有鉴于近日斗湖市内罪案频仍，除了掠抢偷窃案件外，更发生严重的破门掠劫案件，造成人心惶惶，大马防范罪案基金会沙巴分会因而特为此与斗湖警方举行交流会，并透过双造的紧密合作与建议，达致共识为遏止罪案携手为共同拼治安踏出第一步。

沙巴防范罪案基金会主席拿督陈沛武日前专程就有关事项抵访斗湖，并与该会副主席拿督彭恩良、理事拿督余伦福局绅设交流晚宴款待斗湖警方高级警官，以共同为斗湖市民的治安作出防范之努力，出席警官包括斗湖警区主任依布拉欣助理总监、副主任英兰警监、刑事调查主任沙则士副警监、政治部主任沙烈副警监、行政主任丹雅助理警监、肃毒组主任张明广助理警监、支援主任薛助理警监等警官及李再有。

曾任吉隆坡总警长的拿督陈沛武在交流会上，也以其丰富及见解独到的经验建议于警方，并分享其过去在警界服务时屡破罪案的手法。这名在七十年代时曾任斗湖警察局长的资深退休警官，亦在会上提供许多宝贵意见予斗湖警方参考，依布拉欣助理总监对于防范罪案基金会所反映地方上罪案的实情及市民心声表示欢迎，并允诺加速处理及全面打击罪案事件。

而向来非常关注刑事罪案之发生的前斗湖国会议员拿督余伦福，较早前所印制之防范罪案手册，也在交流会上受到警方的高度赞扬，并希望更加广泛加以流通，让市民都能从中受惠。

15th August 2010

Relook directors' training proposal

NEWS WITHOUT BORDERS :: Local News

'Relook directors' training proposal' by Kong See Hoh Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 15, 2010): MCA vice-president and Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai has urged the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) to relook its proposal to make it mandatory for directors of non-listed companies to attend its training course in view of the negative response from the private sector. Lim, who is also MCA national SME bureau chief, said in a statement the proposal is intended to raise the quality of the directors but there are a lot of technical problems which need to be overcome before it can be implemented. “We need to study (the proposal) before its full implementation,” Nanyang Siang Pau quoted him as saying. Lim pointed out that many company directors belong to the league of businessmen who started from scratch, and whose hands-on experience can match anything one can learn from the books. “To businessmen, (attending) courses which do not produce results are deemed an act of taking a step backwards. Furthermore, many companies have professional secretaries, accountants and even legal consultants (to ensure everything is in order)," he said. Lim felt that instead of making it compulsory for company directors to attend the training course, the government can consider organising seminars or interaction sessions on government policies regularly to better inform the people concerned on the latest developments, such as SME loan applications. “The government should implement policies which the people want, based the 'people first' concept," he said. The CCM has proposed that the government make it mandatory for private company directors to attend its corporate director training programme to better understand their responsibilities and duties. They are to pay for the one-and-a-half-day course out of their own pockets. Once it is made compulsory, it will affect some 1,620,000 directors from about 810,000 non-listed companies in Malaysia. The proposal drew flak from the private sector and many had regarded it as redundant. Former Tawau MP Geoffrey Yee said the training course proposal “is impractical and unnecessary”. He said if it is implemented, company directors will be forced to take time off from their busy schedule to attend the course. Furthermore, they have to pay out of their own pockets. Yee, who is now in the plantation industry and a company director himself, suggested that the government come up with a multi-lingual booklet on management which company directors can read up on their own free time. Yee called up Nanyang to express his views as a Sabahan businessman after reading the daily’s report on the proposal. He said should the government insist on implementing the proposal, it should provide the course free of charge as company directors, too, are paying income taxes every year. MCA Youth SME development bureau chief Andy Chiew also voiced the bureau’s objection to the proposal. He said in a statement that CCM organised a similar training course three years ago but did not go down well with the industry. He said it would be commendable for company directors to be able to learn what it takes to run a company in just one-and-a-half days. But the reality is that they do not, he said. He said the last time around, the course was not properly organised and failed to raise the knowledge of the participants. Apart from causing inconvenience to the private sector, it was a waste of resources, he said. Source: The Sun