Feedback from Residents - Security Around Road A & B

We welcome and appreciates feedback and suggestions on any matters that will benefit the residents. Here's an email from one of our residents, Ong, with regards to our present security conditions. Security is one of the key items which the committees discusses and deliberates in every of our monthly meeting. The current security is under the developer's control and we are working very hard to ensure that the services rendered are worth the fees we pay.

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Dear Canal Gardens Committee Members,

First of all thanks for all efforts puts in for the betterment of our housing area.

The blog is a great effort to have a better communication and collaboration between the residents. Bravo!!!!

Saw comments on the brighter lighting which has definitely has managed to lit up some of our area. Nonetheless at the end of Road A, the lighting is still very poor. As noticed, the canal/park lighting around the canal stop at Road B. The distance between the last canal/park light between Road B and street lighting in Road A is far and thus leaving a very dark area in the place. Wondering why the canal/park lighting stop there? In term of security, from Road B onward, the perimeter fencing is a wire barb fencing which can be easily climb over or dig underneath. As the area is already dark coupled with only a low wire perimeter fencing, matter is worsen as there are bushes just outside the perimeter fencing, the area is really a security hazard. There is no way our security guard will notice anyone climbing over from this area!!!!!! The resident here is already suffering the double standard (short changed by developer) of having just the wire bard fencing instead of the nicer and more security effective wall fencing and lousy landscaping, we hope it could be fair to us in this area.

Suggest improvement to that area as follows:

(i) Build higher wall fencing with spikes;
(ii) Another pole of canal/park lighting should be install there. (just because the area is at the end of the housing area with no visibility to public does not mean the developer should neglect us).
(iii) Frequent patrolling (we noticed that there is normally no guard station around at the 2nd exit station after late night)

Another security problem wishes to highlights is how easy an outsider can come in into our housing area. All he or she need to do is sometime ‘angkat tangan’ with the guard at the visitor lane or just say ‘hantar orang’ or ‘ambil barang’ even at night time…. Guess this is very serious offence by the guard and they dun seem to be bother to try to register the visitor. As we all agreed that we wanted a tight security, those action should be seriously avoided action must be taken against those guards.

Thank you and hopefully our concern can be taken into serious consideration.