SELAMA, Jan 23 (Bernama) — Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir has urged the police to increase patrols to curb the rampant car break-ins in Ipoh.

He noted that of late, cases of smashing car windows to steal valuables such as laptops and cameras were becoming more frequent.

“It is like they (thieves) know that potential victims keep cameras and laptops inside their cars…they may have a type of detector to do so,” he said when asked to comment on several car break-ins involving media personnel over the past few months.

“I don’t want to assume that the media personnel were planned targets of the thieves…because it might have been a coincidence as the thieves are able to detect valuables in the cars,” he said.

Dr Zambry was speaking to reporters after presenting keys to recipients of houses from the Capacity Building Foundation (YBU) here Sunday.

In the past six months, six cars belonging to media personnel were broken into, while a media office was also targeted.

In the latest incident last Thursday, a photographer from the Perak Menteri Besar’s office incurred a total loss of over RM20,000 when a digital camera and laptop were stolen.

— BERNAMA