Constructors? Do you have any fren in the cabinet?

Reading Providing cops with good homes, makes my heart weeps again!

Definitely someone will make some extra money at the same time! Who are they? He he he, your guess is as good as mine, :) !

At the same time, as much as I sympaties with the meagre salary earned by policemen compared to the amount of 'rich' kick-backs that they are exposed-to daily, I am still of the opinion that they deserved the bad pay. After all, the entry academic requirement fixed the amount of salary that you get in civil services.

Could you expect to earn loads when you are just a PMR leavers working as constables?

That's also the reason of the irrational behaviours of most policement. They are not that bright, aren't they?

The Star Online > Nation

Thursday June 9, 2005

Providing cops with good homes

BY SA’ODAH ELIAS

PUTRAJAYA: The days of policemen living and working in inferior or rented dwellings is coming to an end as 160 projects to build 25,000 units of houses and office complexes for them are expected to get off the ground soon.

The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and the Pension Fund would finance the “build, lease and transfer” projects, which are expected to cost the Government RM2.5bil.

Announcing this, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the investments by the EPF and the Pension Fund would be “money well invested” because the returns were guaranteed by the Government.

Abdullah being greeted by some ex-police personnel upon his arrival for a Patriotic Day dinner in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday.

“This is going to be a very good investment for them because, based on our projection, the returns they will get from this venture will be better than the 3% interest that they get from keeping their funds in fixed deposit.

“There is no fear of losses because the Government is going to pay rent on the houses that we are going to use,” he told reporters after chairing a meeting of a task force to look into the implementation of the recommendations by the Royal Commission of Police.

“And after a certain period, according to the agreement that we will sign with them, the houses will be transferred to the Government,” he added.

Abdullah said the projects would be carried out as soon as the Internal Security Ministry, the Public Works Department and the Treasury work out the details and decide how the contracts would be awarded.

In Kuala Lumpur, WANI MUTHIAH reports that a strong sense of love and loyalty for the country prompted Felda settler Ahmad Mahmud to sign up as a special constable in 1951.

Ahmad, who was 16 at the time, recalled he left his home in Sungai Siput, Perak, to help protect the country during the turbulent Emergency period.

The 70-year-old father of seven was among several hundred retired policemen and former special constables who were at the Ex-Policemen's Patriotic Day 2005 celebrations at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara, which Abdullah graced last night.

In his speech, Abdullah said all Malaysians owed it to the many dedicated individuals who had protected the country during the Emergency.

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