Get to Know your Security Guard (Part VII)

This is the 6th guard. His name is Shambu, another nepalese. This guy sits in the guardhouse most of the time to monitor the entry of cars into our area. He will write down the registration number of cars that do not have our ss22A stickers and those which has not come into our area before. (i hope he checks if these cars leave our area).

This is done during the daytime. Only during nighttime, cars are stopped and queried.

The 7th guard is a supervisor and probably camera shy. He is Zaibidin. A Malaysian. This is the guard in dark sunglasses most of the time (hhmm not sure why he is hiding behind those shades). With after5 shadow mostly too.

But careful about this one, i have caught him snoozing even though being a supervisor. Again, tell me if this one is spotted snoozing by you. In the meantime, we have recommended for him to be removed. Let us hope we get a replacement soonest.

The Infamous Belukar of Roads 6 and Road 8

1 not so friendly neighbour said that our infamous belukar looks like Guantanamo Bay with all the barb wires fringing the area. Was it such a horrible sight? Have a look at the video i recorded.

Was it necessary since there is a fence? We thought it was else we had sleepless nite. You see before this belukar was not just overgrown scrubs. It had trees, i think most of it, the same rosewood trees that line Road 1. But it was chopped off by this person supposedly the owner of the land. (another blog topic).

The overgrown shrubs are easy hiding place for thieves and they had made a path into the area. The fence was of no use. They either crawled under or climbed over. They were pretty good in identifying the patrol time of the guards so they knew when to come in or exit undetected.

After the spate of buglary, 6 in 2 months - the last 4 houses of road 6 and even the 1st house of road 4....yes that giant looking like impenetrable house, the neighbours agreed that the barbed wires will deter the thieves from coming in.

But almost as soon as we had the barbed wires up, we had the 4th night guard as well. It has since then been more secure. At least we got to contain certain area for security sake.

This video is specifically for a buddy of SS22A who is away in Germany and is probably missing the scenery in our neighbourhood.

Get to Know your Security Guard (Part V) and their Shifts.

This is the 5th Guard. Finally i got a hold of his photo. His name is Prem and , a nepalese. Speaks little BM but can comprehend what we tell him. Newest guard. Tall though, surprisingly :-).

There are 7 guards altogether. 3 in the daytime shift and 4 at night.

9am-12pm, 2pm - 5pm described as non- peak hours in the daytime. The automatic barrier at Guardhouse A on Road 1 will be closed and entrance will be monitored by the guard. The barrier gate at Guardhouse B at Road 4 is partially closed and entrance is monitored by the second guard. The third guard on shift will patrol our area.

The other hours of the daytime will be considered peak hours ie school dismissal time. During Peak hours the barrier gates are not closed. But entrance into our area is still monitored by the guards at the guardhouses checkpoint.

At night, the both barriers close at 745pm. There will be 2 guards at the Guardhouse A and 1 guard at Guardhouse B. One of the guard from Guardhouse A will assist the 4th guard in the patrolling of the area after 12am. And at 2am-6pm, the 4th guard will concentrate his duty only at Road 6 and Road 8 plus end of Road 1 area.

Just yesterday night, a house alarm rang at about 3.30am. This 4th guard sprung to action immediately getting on his bike and riding to survey.

At 7am, the barriers open but guardhouses are to be manned by 1 guard. If you do not see a guard at the guardhouses, please let me know. My email address is karenlohkh@yahoo.com

Get to Know your Security Guard (Part IV)

This is Liwon. He is one of the 2 supervisors for the guards. A familiar face and always very attentive. One of the longer standing guards and i think(let me confirm this later) has been around as our guard for close to 2 years. Takes his work very seriously. He was the one guard who would alight from his bike and walk around the fringes of the belukar during his night shift. Now with the extra guard, the 2 of them make a good team ensuring the road 6 and road 8 are safer.

Get To Know the Security Guard (Part III)

This is Anandurai, another local guard who is the night shift guard only. He is responsible for the patrolling along Road 6 and Road 8 from 2am to 6am in the morning. This is the time frame that many attempted break-ins or break-ins happened prior to the extra guard shift. Thank goodness for him!

Get to Know the Security Guard (Part II)

This is Zainal Abidin, (no not the famous malaysia footballer but our guard). This one of the local guards during the morning shift.

Get to Know The Security Guard (Part I)

This is my first part of posting photo of our security guards for easier identification of our guards. Sure, we can identify them from the uniform they wear ie the Blue shirt with a yellow vest and the company logo- Wahad Securities, but if you have yet to see how they look up close, this postings will help.

This is the morning shift security guard and his name is Mohan Ole. He is a Nepalese. My apologies for not being able to supply bio-datas. When i get it, i will edit this post. All i kind say now, is he is not very tall huh? (nasty me).

For those who do not know the schedule of the guards shift. The morning shift starts from 745am to 745pm. The night shift guards take the next 12 hours.

Updates on Break-ins

Firstly, i must say, i never expected to hear from readers that i havent been blogging. Mere rantings of mine but at least it keeps some residents who are away from our neighbourhood in touch with what is going on around. Thanks to those reminding me to do my rantings more frequently. :-)

As we recall, the spate of break-ins at Road 6 and Road 8 houses, brought about plenty of worries. I for one, took to waking up at 4am every morning. I would switched on the lights in my house to make known that the people in the house are awake....ie DONT COME STEAL MY STUFF AGAIN!! Other neighbours also observed some night duties from inside their homes. We stayed vigilant! 6 break-ins in 2 1/2 months (from March to June). We were furious!

There were police dialogues to which Community Policing was brought up and the police sent patrolling cars which pretty much did not create an impact by coming in during daytime when the thugs were coming in at night.

But one incident lead me to call the police and they reacted very ....i say it again very promptly (within 5minutes). Our own security guards saw 2 men going into the belukar that flanks road 6 and road 8 about 130am and i got up upon hearing the rev of the guards motorbike approaching the belukar. My house is the 2nd houses away from the belukar. So i went out to ask the guard who was pacing up and down making sure, no one would have come through. But i decided to call the police and asked for police patrol to show their presence thus warding off those 2 men if they were still hiding in the belukar.

To my surprise, not only did the police come promptly, 2 patrol cars came. I didnt know whether that was efficient use of their patrolling schedules but their presence, surely would have been intimidating. There they were, 5 police officers, tall and well- build making their presence known. Unfortunately, i wouldnt have said it was any heroic attempt because they didnt go into the belukar to hunt down those 2 thugs (who are probably drug addicts too).

Also by then, the residents along Road 6 and Road 8 had collected funds to put up barbed wires at the fringe of the belukar along the fence.

Even then, there were still some attempted break in along Road 8 and the thugs were coming in from the squatters area. All they have to do is just jump across the Monsoon drain. One of the neighbour woke up when his alarm went off and when he came downstairs, he could hear people talking at the back of his house. Together with our guard and his immediate neighbour(my vote as the most helpful neighbour), they surveyed the back of his house the early hours of the morning. Of course by then, the thugs would have left.

Alarms would ring nitghtly and strayed dogs were barked constantly towards the belukar. So the residents discussed and decided that a 4th guard patrolling along Road 6 and Road 8 was a necessity. Else no one would sleep!

Now, there there is a 4th guard for the night shift. He patrols only along road 6 and road 8 from 2am to 6am everyday.

With this, there is less worry and more sleep.........