Soon, lodging a police report will be as easy as updating your Facebook status.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan told The New Straits Times that the government will develop a system which will enable Malaysians to lodge a report without having to be present at a police station.
“They can just file a police report via their mobile phone or their computers from home,” he was quoted as saying.
Nur Jazlan also told the daily that the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the police are now working closely together to develop the structure of the application, including ironing out the legal aspects of the system.
One possible con about the system, according to Nur Jazlan, was verifying the identity of the person who lodges the complaint.
“On paper, complainant can just sign the report at the station. For an online report, we need to ensure that a digital signature is legally accepted,” he was further quoted as saying.
Back in 2013, the government launched a similiar app called MyDistress where Malaysians can report a crime or request assistance from the police with just a single touch of the screen.
However, the app was abruptly killed just a few months after its launch, so it will be interesting to see if this new police report system would be able to stay alive.
