Reporting a Johor crime? Call this number +607-2212-999

For those that have read my blog in Jan, you would know that I was a victim on New Year day. Since then heading back to JB would typically take me hours to consider and end up just dropping the idea altogether.

But on top of displaying a friendly face after an event you would rather forget, maybe they could also try solving or preventing the crime in the first place.

Johor police will respond to calls from victims of crime in Johor within 15 minutes - if they call a 24-hour hotline.

The number to call is +607-2212-999.According to The Straits Times, police officers based at at Johor's Contingent Police headquarters in Jalan Tebrau, Johor Baru, are on orders to mobilise a team into action within 15 minutes of taking a genuine hotline call.

Johor State Assemblyman Tan Kok Hong was quoted as saying this after a Malaysian trade and investment roadshow led by International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz here yesterday.According to Mr Tan, this number is more immediate because officers may not always be able to respond to police station calls immediately due to work matters.

He added: "If the officer does not arrive within 15 minutes, report it to us. The Chief of Police will look into why the police officer arrived late."

A Straits Times reporter put this to the test and true enough, she was greeted by a friendly cop who spoke fluent English.

Johor police have also in the past two months increased the number of policemen, patrol cars, police posts, closed-circuit TV cameras as well as the frequency of patrols, thanks to a RM330 million (S$145 million) special allocation from the federal government.

There has been growing concern over the worrying spate of Johor carjackings, rapes and robberies.

The new measures will reinforce efforts by the Malaysian government to woo investors, including those from Singapore, to Johor's new 2,217-sq-km economic zone, the Iskandar Development Region.