30,000 ‘citizen cops’ help K.L. police force by SMS

Link: 30,000 now helping cops.

It started off as a project to get city folks involved in police crime prevention activities but Rakan Cop has since grown into a 30,000-strong force that has become the eyes and ears of the boys in blue.

SAC Jamaluddin said that before Rakan Cop was
launched, city police received only about 700 calls from the public on
its hotline and 2,435 in the form of SMS.

By last year, these calls had grown 10-fold and the SMS more than eight times.