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"Burma claims supression gain"
The Kathmandu Post
Rangoon, July 3(AFP)- Crime has dropped over the past year as a result of
new crime suppression methods involving local residents in police
activities, the state-run Mirror daily reported Thursday

Seroius crimes decreased by 18 per cent and petty crimes by more than 10
per cent in the year from July 1996, the report said.

It linked the drop in crime to the establishment of 369 joint outposts
manned by police and local residents in 90 major  townships around the
country and said public participation was a key to crime suppression and
reduction. " by further educating the people and encouraging them to
cooperate with authorities in suppressing various crimes, we can build a
peaceful, modern and developed nation and realize the triple goal of
crime reduction, security for the people and a peaceful enviroment as
envisaged by our leaders" it said.

The joint outposts were pattered along the lines of a "koban" system in
Japan and tested in the last half of 1996 and the first half of 1997, the
Mirror noted.