Seminar Keselamatan Kampus

          On the 30^th of April 2016, Sakura College’s Exco of Discipline and Safety organized a seminar known as ‘Seminar Keselamatan Kampus’ or Campus Safety Seminar. The guest speaker for this event is Mr. Rajan Thangaveloo. This event was held at Center of Teaching Facilities 1 (CTF1).

          The seminar started with the arrival of the guest speaker, around 9.30 a.m, followed by the usual singing of UNIMAS’s and Sakura College anthem. After everyone was seated, the MC began a short introduction of the guest speaker. Mr Rajan Thangaveloo is a lecturer of the Faculty of Resource Science and Technology (FRST) since 2008. He is also the Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) of the Kor Suksis Unimas since 2014. Known for his friendliness and charm, he was immediately recognized by some of his students during the event.

          He was then invited up to the stage to give his talk. He began his talk by expressing his wish to organize a similar kind of talk to the whole of UNIMAS rather than to just individual residential colleges as he felt that the topic of safety is important to everyone. He explained that due to the large campus size and the huge population of people residing in the university, awareness for personal safety should be further emphasized as there are many kinds of threat present be it physically, subversively, or due to natural disasters.

           Mr Rajan stressed that if students remain ignorant in regards of their own personal safety, there are many negative consequences, one of which that their very own lives might be in grave danger. He then proceeded to tell personal stories and cases that have occurred in real life in UNIMAS. One of them is about two students who were attacked on their way home to their college, in which several unidentified men tailed them using their motorcycles and threatened them to hand over their phones. Fearing for their safety, the students were forced to give up their belongings, and the men were not caught until this day.

         He also told stories of how the Royal Malaysian Police were not only in service to their own country, but also to neighbouring ones, such as Thailand. He mentioned how he is now in process of introducing a new safety program to UNIMAS, known as 3K (Kepolisan, Komuniti dan Kampus). The project is now in pipeline and it involves the cooperation of the Student Affairs Division, Kor Suksis UNIMAS, and the local police in order to maintain the safety of the campus and its surrounding areas.

         After a short Q&A session, the event came to a close around 11.15 a.m. with the head of Sakura College’s Student Council, Wan Nur Azliza, handing over a small souvenir to the guest speaker.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar