Security Issue

The people in Glenmarie Cove really knows how to party and have a good time. One after another, we have drinking, eating, singing, jamming, gossiping, story telling and whatnots. A fine example of community living at it best. Slowly but surely, most of the main residents are getting to know each other pretty well and glad to note that, most do get along pretty amicably too, except for a few, which is common, as perfection is an ongoing process, if it is already perfect, then there is nothing to pursue anymore, right?

Well, during the parties, where I am pretty much a listener, I noted that many residents noticed that recently, there has been many outsiders coming and going at our precinct at their whims and fancy. Standards of security seemed to be going down. There has to be some sort of control to stop outsiders from coming in by just saying they are visiting a friend, especially at unearthly hours.

Even personally, today, I got back from a function in KL and reached the first guardhouse around 11.50 p.m. In front of me, there was a motorcycle. I saw the guard pointing to the Sri Santai but the motorcycle just turned left, without registering. I wind down my window and asked the guard, who were the two people. He told me that they were the friends of some residents, coming in to FISHING!! Apparently, he must know them, otherwise, how would he know they are just coming for FISHING?


I told the guard, why are they not registering at the counter Sri Santai? He immediately talked into his walkie talkie to ask the 2nd guard at the second guardhouse to turn them back to register.

My grouse now is this :-

At 11.45 p.m, can a visitor just be let in without verification with the resident? can the "visitor" just mention to go fishing and they are friends of A resident and be let in? It is fine if residents don't want their visitors to be hampered, but at 11.45 p.m?? Shouldn't the guard at least be calling the resident to verify and get the resident to vouch for this visitors? They are not even really visiting the resident but coming in to FISH, on the pretext that the resident is waiting for them. I think late night visitors should be subjected to more stringent procedure and may even need the resident to vouch PERSONALLY, or pre-alert the guards on late night visitors.

Also, what about the overnight visitors? (Taking this two fellows on motorcyle, if they are fishing, they would be "stay" overnight? Are we sure they are just "fishing"? Do we want to care?) Shouldn't the security be informed too by the residents? At least as a courtesy to other neighbours. We are all sharing the same precinct. Do we really want to wait for something untoward to happen before we put in all the precautionary deterrents? Do the residents want to cry over spilled milk?

I have also noticed on a few occasions that contractors (I am assuming it is contractor) that just come in, passed the first guardhouse and proceeded to the second guardhouse, without going to Sri Santai either. Then, they will wait at the second guardhouse for the security guard to open the boomgate for them. What I am not pleased about is that the guard DO open the door for them, probably they know each other well but procedure is procedure and it is put there for a reason! Start bending rules and regulations, that is where the problem all starts. On many occasions too, I observed that people leaving in cars and motorcycles waited at the second guardhouse for the security guard to open the boom gate for them. Meaning, they didn't register too, because otherwise, they would have their own touch and go key to slot in to open the gate!

I will definitely highlight this to the management and the security company, and our penghulu, after hearing it from fellow residents and observing it myself too. Most of the people in Glenmarie Cove are bought in the security and leisure lifestyles offered here. If we want to have strangers loitering around our neighbourhood, we don't have to pay a premium for our property and monthly security fees to get that. Any taman will have strangers loitering around anytime of the day and we can get that for free elsewhere for that matter, why pay for it?

Discipline has been wanting, rules has been bent, it is high time things are being righted. It is really a lovely neighbourhood with lovely people and we really don't wish to have any untoward incident to mar such a blessed place. Some residents might not like a strict enforcement of rules but if the majority requested so, the minority has to follow, that is called democracy and majority rules. The interest of the majority has to come first, I guess, though it sounded selfish but we just couldn't risk polluting a well just because some people refuse to take joint care of it? Granted, we are not under siege but everything starts small, to snowball into something that might be regretted later on. Nip it at the bud, like our penghulu always advised us.