An update from Edward Lee

Hi friends! Thanks for turning up and showing your support at our Security Committee meeting last Sunday. The full capacity crowd has given much needed encouragement and resolve to the committee to press ahead with our plans to make Section 5 safer.

I was with the contractor engaged to fabricate the neighbourhood gates yesterday afternoon to measure the widths of the roads.  We hope to have the gates up latest next week. The mayor of MBPJ has indicated earlier that due to serious safety breaches we could go ahead and install the gates. This is conditional on the majority of Section 5 residents not objecting to the proposal. All those present at the meeting voted unanimously in favour of the proposal to erect the gate.

It was proposed by the committee and adopted by the meeting that the gated community concept be implemented in the following stages.

STEP 1     Installation of the gates at Jalan 5/35, Jalan 5/12, Jalan 5/13, Jalan 5/9, Jalan 5/5, Jalan 5/2 with immediate effect. The job is to be completed by next week.

STEP 2     Once put in place, the gates will be left open for one month to enable residents who opposed the gates to write to the Residents’ Association officially. Any correspondence may be dropped into the postbox of the association at Jalan Chantek 5/13 to state their objections.
During this time, the gates will be closed only during emergencies by the police or persons authorised by the Assocation.

STEP 3      At the expiry of the one month grace period, if no written objections are received, the committee will close four out of six gates daily. The area would by then be patrolled by security personnel recruited by the Association and the four gates will be operated by them.

The OCPD of Petaling Jaya, ACP Mazlan bin Mansor, stated during the meeting that he has no objection to the proposed gates nor the system of operating the gates. We are pleased to report that number of residents have stepped forward to act as volunteer road captains. Our thanks to these individuals for taking up the call to help to make our neighbourhood more secure.

If you have any thoughts or idea on improving neighbourhood security in Section Five, write in here.