Community Service And Henry Gurney For Mat Rempit

Yesterday the Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye from Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation suggested a few measures to curb the notorious Mat Rempit.
He suggested that Mat Rempits should be asked to do community service. Instead of giving them fines, the government should consider educating and in a way ‘embarrassing’ them through community service.
These suggestions I think are much more ‘workable’, viable and make more sense than sending them to jail.
Putting them behind bars will in a way enable them to hide their identity. We need to put faces to these names. The key word is ‘embarrass’ them in public.
Indirectly it will also help to reduce congestion in prison. I don’t think putting them in jail for a short while would have any impact. In fact it might boost their ego, “Been there. Done that.”
Ego made them turn into Mat Rempit. And we should use their ‘Ego’ against them.
Make them sweep the road, collect garbage and cleaning the public toilet should be considered. Make sure their identities are easily identified by the general public. Give them bright uniforms and apparels written “I’m Mat Rempit”.
Making them do all these laborious job might help the local authorities to save some cost.
Another suggestion mooted was to send the underage Mat Rempit to Henry Gurney School.
There’s no harm trying this. Some of these Mat Rempits are not hard core criminals. They’re just some youth who wanna release steam. The threat of sending them to Henry Gurney to be with other juvenile criminals can be a deterrent factor.
This will also indirectly make the parents to take more pro-active role. Like it or not, the parents have to control their children unless they want their children to end up in Henry Gurney School.
Whatever action taken, the authority need to give it more prominence in the media. The public and Mat Rempit need to know that action are being taken. And they need to take this matter seriously.
They take law lightly realizing that the judge can only impose light sentence and it won’t hurt their ego. Before this they hide behind the helmet. Now is the time for the media to put their face in the news more prominently and make sure the public knows who these nuisances in the community are.
This suggestion is not to glamourise the Mat Rempit but to put face on this anonymous public enemy. For as long as they remain anonymous, they will forever terrorise the general public.