15,200 join police force to meet targets

Source: http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/15-200-join-police-force-to-meet-targets-1.67014 (28/3/2012)
POLICE have signed up 15,200 recruits to meet its National Key Results Area target. In a written reply to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut), the Home Ministry said of the number, 11,819 were Malays, 495 Indians, 193 Chinese and 2,693 from other races. It also said in 2009, more than RM10.6 million had been spent to purchase new service equipment, including guns and rifles from the United States. Under the NKRA, reduction of crime index is part of the police targets. It also said redeployment of personnel had been carried out to reduce crime since 2009.