Gated Sevices - Big Business

Last year when YB Hannah Yeoh was actively promoting the 'SJ Alert' asking all Subang Jaya residents to participate in this campaign to fight crime, I sent a massage to her blog saying that she should spent more time with the police and should run after the police in this issue of crime fighting instead of spending so much time in 'SJ Alert'. The reaction was fantastic.


I was under heavy missile attack from Subang Jaya for pouring cold water.

My reply to the missiles was "If you have a maid at home and when your maid is not doing her job, instead of taking necessary action to make sure that she does her works, you start a 'home alert' and try to mobilize your husband, your parents and your children to make sure that your house is clean, laundry is done, food is served while your maid is shaking her legs watching TV. Can you say "Thanks to the 'home alert', your house is in order." I was expecting more missiles but surprisingly there was no reaction at all to my reply. It is possible that they have decided to ignore me.

My area has 920 households, the resident association has proposed to start a gated and guarded project for the 920 households. The proposed fee is Rm 50.00 a month per household. For 100% participation this is a Rm 552,000.00 annual business. I started to think, since PJ and Subang have a combined population of about one million, by assuming 6 person per household, that is 166,000 households. If these households were to have gated and guarded projects, it is a Rm 100 million a year business. If any one can make sure that the current police inefficiency is maintained, the crime rate in the housing area remains high and the resident association support the idea, he can start to have his Rm100 million a year business. Call this a conspiracy theory.