Ahmad Zahid: Snatch theft, blackmail on the rise but murders, armed robberies down

"Murders reduced from 504 cases to 433 cases or by 14% while gang armed robbery was reduced from 83 cases to 54 cases or by 34%," he said in a reply to Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed in Parliament.

Ahmad Zahid said gang robbery reduced from 13,533 cases to 12,048 cases or by 9% while crimes involving firearms from 20 cases to 14 cases or by 13%.