ROBBERS armed with parangs are terrorising small businesses run near the squatter homes in Jalan Peel, Cheras.
The robbers usually arrive on two or three motorcycles.
Restaurant Mun Wah owner Yee Fook said his shop was robbed for the first time in 10 years at about 10pm on Monday.
Robbed and slashed: Chung showing the slash mark she suffered on Monday night while she was having supper at Restaurant Mun Wah. “We were doing brisk business that night when this group of men barged in, threatening to harm me if I did not hand them all my money,” recalled Yee Fook, 62.
“Then they went after my brother, hitting him to force him to give up his belongings. Not satisfied with what they got from him, they then went after a customer who got slashed in the waist while trying to escape the scene.
“In fact, all my customers ran for their lives,” he said.
Yee Fook said he had heard that the robbers had robbed a tomyam outlet just down the road before they came to his restaurant.
“I usually open until 2am as I would still have customers coming around this hour.
Terrorised: Some of the coffee shops set up at squatter homes along Jalan Peel Cheras. “However, because of this traumatising incident, I’ve had to close at 10pm. We have become fearful,” said Yee Fook, adding that his loss that night was about RM3,000.
He said in the last one or two years, bad hats had been loitering around the street making loud noises and revving their bikes up and down.
Meanwhile, the customer whose waist was slashed, Chung Yoke Lan, 51, said she had not noticed the men because she was sitting with her back facing the road.
Chung was robbed of her handbag that contained all important documents but being slashed by the robber was what traumatised her most.
Chung, restaurant operators and residents in the area had a meeting recently to voice their worries.
Many said they hardly see police making their patrols on the street at night.
Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai, who had called for the meeting, urged the police to increase their patrols in the area.
He had also asked a police officer from the Cheras district police department to be present to hear out the operators’ complaints.
“Since there are so many grouses the police should know that this has become a not-so-safe place,” said Tan.
He is urging the people, however, to make reports, whether petty or big crimes, so that all reports recorded would be evidence of the crime rate in a particular area.
Cheras OCPD Asst Comm Ahmad Amir Mohd Hashim, when contacted, said he was aware of the incident.
“In fact, we often patrol the area and will be increasing the frequency of our rounds.
“I view this seriously and we are monitoring the situation 24 hours,” he said.
Tan also touched on the Cheras police complex that was supposed to undergo a RM50mil reconstruction but claimed the plans had now been shelved indefinitely due to the economic downturn.
“The entire operations has been shifted to the Pudu police station to facilitate the reconstruction.
ACP Ahmad Amir said the reconstruction of the IPD Cheras complex was likely to start by the end of the year, following a meeting they had recently.
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