Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi need not be worried about the public not being fair to the police in their fight against hardcore criminals in Malaysia. That is why Malaysians are asking for more resources in terms of equipment and personnel for the police.

It appears that only a mere 9% of the police force of 112,583 or only 10,150 are fighting crime. Instead the public is pressing for Ahmad to increase the number of policemen fighting crime and patrolling the streets to 50% of the police force or 56,000 for them to do an adequate job.

The question is whether Ahmad is fair to the police by diverting their strength from their core duties of fighting crime by requiring them to perform other duties, including monitoring and dealing with political opponents of BN.

Ahmad is not fair to the police by misallocating them for political vendetta. They are now being questioned for failing to protect the public when the police are at times restricted to such non-essential duties by focusing not on criminals, but on law-abiding elected representatives who happen to be from the opposition?

To justify the reinstatement of preventive laws that allows detention without trial, Ahmad claims that the release of 2,600 criminals from the repeal of EO in 2011 has led to an army of 260,000 criminals roaming the streets in Malaysia. This number is shocking coming from a Home Minister and his maths in counting the number of criminals is not only suspect but considered outrageously exaggerated.

However, if Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is correct that there are now 260,000 criminals roaming Malaysian streets, then resuscitating Emergency Ordinance(EO)-like laws will not help the police, but the Malaysian Army and United Nations Peacekeeping Force is necessary to help police face this army of 260,000 criminals.

This shocking 260,000 army of criminals is more than the combined numbers of police personnel of 112,583 and the Malaysian armed forces of 124,000. For this reason DAP calls not only for the Malaysian armed forces to help the police, but that the United Nations Peacekeeping Force should be requested to help the Malaysian police from being outnumbered by the 260,000 army of criminals.