Today afternoon, we (MPSJ) had a meeting with the police at the Selangor IPK (Ibu Pejabat Kontijen - Selangor Police HQ) regarding MPSJ's desire and consideration to set up an auxiliary police unit.

Auxiliary police would have nearly all the powers of a police officer, but is subjected to the area/jurisdiction of operation.

Our objectives for an auxiliary police is simple:
1. Create safer neighbourhoods. To be able to do patrolling to complement the existing police force. We know the great shortage faced by Subang Jaya Police stations. This would help increase the felt presence of the police, and be a deterrent to crime.
2. To provide/arm our enforcement with more bite when conducting their duties. I.e. in raiding a gambling den, we have limited powers to sieze, and to issue summons. Whereas police can arrest the culprits involved, cut the electricity supply to the place, etc. Now we depend on joint operations with the police, but seeing how they also lack manpower, this isn't the most productive way forward.
3. Provide greater security to MPSJ's assets/premise (but this isn't a major consideration).

However, what is dissapointing, its seems that
1. We will not get auxiliary police authority outside of MPSJ's assets. So, we may be granted, if we choose to apply, but our officers are restricted to working within MPSJ's compound, i.e. MPSJ's HQ in USJ5, sports complex, court in SS15, etc. This defeats the who intention of setting up in the first place, which is to provide for safer neighbourhoods.
2. The application will take years. The fastest is apparently about 1 year, and some 3 years, he even quoted one that took 6 years to get approved. This just doesn't make sense, when private bodies, at their own cost, want to help the police, the police gives them a run-around.

However, we do note the exception to the general rule for auxilary police, which is Genting group and Sunway. We are also not sure whether to proceed with this just yet. MBPJ's application has been pending for 1 year now. Even if we do, it'll be a long long journey, and that also, we do not know if they would grant MPSJ the 3rd exception after Genting and Sunway, to provide for security for the people and neighbourhoods.